SERINUS CANARIUS. 
(CANARY.) 
Passer serinus canarius, Briss. Orn. 111. p. 184 (1760). 
Fringilla canaria, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 321 (1766). 
Serin des Canaries, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 1 (1778). 
Carduelis canaria (L.), Less. Traité d’Orn. p. 443 (1831). 
Crithagra canaria (L.), Swains. Classif. of B. ii. p. 294 (1837). 
Serinus canarius (L.), Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 163 (1850-51). 
Serinus hortulanus, Godm. Ibis, 1866, p. 98, nec Koch. 
Dryospiza canaria (L.), G. R. Gray, Hand-l. of B. ii. p. 83 (1870). 
Figure notabiles. 
Webb & Berth. Voy. Canar. tab. 2; Bolle, J. f. Orn. 1858, taf. 1. 
é ad. pileo viridi-flavo nigro-fusco striato: dorsi plumis nigro-fuscis valdé cinereo marginatis et vix viridi-flavo 
lavatis: uropygio viridi-flavo: supracaudalibus dorso concoloribus: remigibus nigro-fuscis, primariis 
viridi-flayo anguste marginatis, secundariis intimis cervino marginatis: tectricibus alarum nigro-fuscis 
viridi-flavo marginatis et terminatis: rectricibus nigro-fuscis, angusté pallidé flavo-cervino marginatis : 
capitis lateribus sordidé flavidis: mento, gula, gutture et corpore subtis aurantiaco-flavis, abdomine imo 
et subcaudalibus flavo-albidis, hypochondriis nigro-fusco striatis: rostro et pedibus brunnescenti- 
carneis: iride fusca. 
9 ad. ubique sordidior et magis fusco colorata: pileo cinereo, fusco striato et vix flavido tincto: alis minus 
flavido tinctis: corpore subtus albido-cervino, gula, pectore et abdomine centraliter viridi-flavido tinctis. 
Adult Male (Orotava, Teneriffe, 7th April). Crown greenish yellow or apple-green, finely striped with’ 
blackish brown; feathers on the back blackish brown, broadly margined with ashy grey, and slightly 
marked with apple-green; rump bright apple-green ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; quills blackish 
brown, the primaries narrowly edged with apple-green, the inner secondaries margined with buff; 
wing-coyerts blackish brown, margined and tipped with apple-green ; tail blackish brown, the feathers 
having light margins; sides of the head dull apple-yellow; chin, throat, and underparts rich dark 
golden-yellow, becoming paler and almost white on the lower abdomen and under tail-coverts ; flanks 
striped with blackish brown; bill and legs fleshy brown; iris brown. ‘Total length about 5 inches, 
culmen 0°38, wing 29, tail 2°55, tarsus 0:72. 
Adult Female (Teneriffe, 28th April). Differs from the male in having very much less greenish yellow in 
the plumage; the crown is grey, striped with blackish, and scarcely marked with greenish yellow; the 
wings are also scarcely marked with that colour; but the rump is washed with apple-green ; underparts 
buffy white in place of yellow, washed with apple-yellow on the throat, breast, and centre of the 
abdomen. 
Nestling (fide Bolle, J. f. O. 1858, p. 151). Upper parts brownish grey, marked with indistinct blackish 
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