The Endiinincc of Birds. 
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Adult male. — The general colouration is yellowish-green, 
with patches of bright yellow on the lower back, chin, and wing- 
covert margins; with eye-streaks, throat and abdomen of brilli- 
ant golden-yellow; beak yellowish, upper mandible somewhat 
dusky; legs and feet dusky. Total length 6 inches. 
Adult female. — Similar to the male, but slightly duller, 
and the golden-yellow areas less intense and ill defined. 
This species was bred by our member W. Shore Baily 
in 1914, and an account of this success appeared in Bird Notes 
page 264, of that year, from which 1 extract the following 
details : — 
" On May 2olh the nest contained four pear-shaped eggs, of a 
" greenish-white colour, without any markings whatever. Incubation 
" lasted fourteen du\s, and the hen alone incubated." 
" On June 13th two chicks were hatched, and thirteen days later 
" they left the nest and were quite strong on the wing." 
■' The juvenile plumage was grey, tinged with green on flights and 
" tail, and striated with brown on the breast and back." 
Mr. W. E. Teschemaker was credited with successfullv 
breeding this species in 1909, but his supposed pair were not 
of the same species, viz: 6". sulphuratus d and S. albigularis 9. 
As this species has been successfully crossed with the canary, 
St. Helena Seedeater, Siskin and the White-throated Serin, if 
pairs were obtained it should prove a free breeder. Perhaps 
Mr. Shore Baily will inform us if he kept his pair and if so, with 
what breeding success during later seasons. 
It is hardy and enduring and also pugnacious, at least I 
have found the odd males I ha\e possessed so. 
The Cape Canary (S. caiiicollis) . also known as the 
Grey-necked Serin; it is a very handsome species, but has the 
serin-character of quarrelsomeness, especially with other serins, 
and birds of similar colouration to itself. 
It has not so far shown itself a free breeder in captivity, 
manily, perhaps, because comparatively few have possessed it in 
true pairs. It has been crossed with the domestic canary, and 
the resulting hybrids have been sweet songsters. Mr. W. E. 
Teschemaker has had nesls built in his aviary, of which a photo- 
reproduction has appeared more than once in Bird Notes. 
