86 PINCH. 



48— PALE-RUMPED FINCH. 



LENGTH four inches and half. Bill reddish brown ; head, 

 neck, and beneath pale yellow, inclining to green at the nape ; back 

 olive-green, then olive-yellow; and finally the rump, the upper and 

 under tail coverts, are pale cinereous ; wings brown, across the lesser 

 coverts a pale rufous band ; below this a whitish one ; quills and tail 

 brown, the latter hollowed out at the end, all but the two middle 

 feathers marked with dusky white on the inner web at the tip; legs 

 brown. — Native place uncertain. — Mr. Bullock. 



50— CANARY FINCH. 



Fringilla Canaria, Lid. Om. i. 454. Lin. i. 321. Gm. Lin. i. 913. Brun. No. 259. 



260. Frisch, 1. 12. Klein, 88. Id. Stem. 17. 1. 18. f. 3. a. b. Boroivsk. iii. 141. 



Roman, Om. i. p. 122. t. 19. Shaw's Zool. ix. 474. 

 Seriuus Canarius, Bris. in. 1S4. Id. 8vo. i. 35S. Raii, 91. 6. Will. 192. t. 46. Kolb. 



Cap. ii. 156 ? Gerin. iv. t. 363, 364. 

 Le Serin des Canaries, Buf.'iv. 1. PL enl. 202. 1. Hist. Prov. i. 512. 

 Passera di Canaria, Zinnan. Uov. 60. t. 8. f. 49. t. 9. 50. Olin. Uc. t. p. 7. 

 Canarien Vogel, Wirs. Vog. t. 18. & 29. Gunth. Nest. u. Ey. t. 83. Naturf. xviii. 94. 

 Canary Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 293. Will. Engl. 262. pi. 46. Albin, i. pi. 65. Id. Song 



Birds, pi. p. 84. Bolton, Birds, pi. 35, 36. Bewick's Birds, i. p. 169. 



ABOUT the size of the Hedge Sparrow ; length five inches and 

 a half. Bill whitish, or tinged with red ; colour of the plumage 

 yellow, more or less mixed with grey ; tail a little forked ; legs pale. 



The colour of these birds, in a state of nature, is chiefly grey,* 

 but changes, into the greatest variety imaginable, from artificial 

 management, in the same manner as our common poultry .f They 



* The Canary Bird which grows white in France, is in the Island of Teneriffe almost 

 as grey as a Linnet, — Adans. Voy. p- 20. The native Canary Bird is of a greyish colour, 

 with some yellow feathers on his breast, which increase in number as the bird grows older.— 

 Emb. to China, i. 122. 



f Twenty-nine Varieties mentioned by name in Hist. des. Ois. p. 10. ; and many more 

 bv the Bird-fanciers. 



