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forming an indistinct imperfect collar with a slight shade on the nucha,) 

 breast, rump, and lesser wing- coverts, greenish yellow : scapulars and 

 larger coverts, deeply shaded with the same : nucha and back, (a tinge 

 only on the latter) similarly, but very lightly shaded. Abdomen, 

 as far as the legs, g-olden yellow : vent, under tail coverts, thighs, and 

 sides, dirty white ; the latter with large longitudinal brown spots. 

 Vertex, occiput, cheeks, back, larger wing coverts, scapulars, and upper 

 tail coverts, brown ash, with a longitudinal brown spot down each 

 feather ; indistinct, small, and light coloured on the head, &c. ; large, 

 dark, and defined on the other parts. Remiges, tertiaries, and tail 

 feathers, brown black, with pale brown ash edges : the external margin 

 of the first four or five remiges, white ; of the rest, pale greenish yellow. 

 Length, five and a quarter, breadth nine inches. Bill, about four lines. 

 Weight, about half an ounce. Tail (which is forked) two inches, four 

 lines. Tarsus, about eight lines. 



" Adult female. — General plumage more dingy and indistinct ; rump 

 only greenish yellow, with a tinge of the same round the eyes, and on 

 the throat, breast, and wing coverts. 



" Male variety. — General plumage more grey ; colouring more in- 

 clining to green : somewhat larger ; song the same. Its produce with 

 a tame bird, stronger. 



" Young male. — Like the female, but with the legs brown black, and 

 the lower mandible darker. 



" Young female. — No yellowish or greenish colouring. 



" It builds in thick bushy high shrubs and trees, with roots, moss, 

 feathers, hair, &c. ; pairs in February ; lays from four to six pale blue 

 eggs, and hatches five times (not unfrequently six) in the season. It 

 is very familiar, haunting and breeding in gardens about the city. It is 

 a delightful songster, with, beyond doubt, much of the nightingale's 

 and sky-lark's, but none of the wood-lark's song, although three or 

 four sky-larks in confinement in Funchal, are the only examples of any 

 of these birds in the island." 



The Fringilla canaria of Linnaeus, whose habitation is said by 

 Gmelin and Turton to be India, is not this species, but an apparently 

 spurious one.* 



CAPERCALZIE (Urogallus vulgaris, Fleming.) 



*Tetrao urogallus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 273. 1. — Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 746. — Raii, Syn, 



p. 53. A. 1.— WilLy. 123. t. 30 Ind. Orn. 2. p. 634. 1 Urogallus major, 



Briss. 1. p. 182 lb. 8vo. 1. p. 51 Tetras auerhan, Temm. 2. p. 457 — Coq.de 



Bruyere, ou Tetras, Buff. 2. p. 191. t. 5. — Capricalea, Sib. Scot. 16. t. 14. 18 — 



Cock of the Wood or Mountain, Raii, Syn. p. 53. A. 1 Will. (Angl.) p. 172. t. 



30.— Albin, 2. t. 29. 30 Wood, or Great Grous, Br. Zool. 1. No. 92. t. 40. 41. 



Ib. fol. M. M. — A ret. Zool. 2. p. 312. A. — lb. Supp. p. &2.—Lalh. Syn. 4. 

 p. 729. l.—Lewiyis Br. Birds, 4. t. 132.— Wale. Syn. 2. t. 180.— Dora. Br. 

 Eirds, 4. t. 89.— Flem. Br. Anim. p. 46.* 



