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The Endurance of Birds. 
Its habits and characteristics are similar to those of the 
other serins described in this paper; as also is its food and 
general treatment, so these need not be repeated. 
Yello\v-r j.virKD Serin (S. angolensis ) . As there is an 
article on this species in this vol. (page lo) I need do no more 
than refer my readers thereto. 
The Serin Finch (S. canarius scrinits). Though classed 
as a British species it is a mere vagrant wanderer to our shores 
Some twenty specimens are recorded from the Eastern and 
Southern counties, one at Edinburgh and two at Dublin. 
Range : It and allied races or forms range over North- 
West Africa and Southern Europe, extending into France. 
Switzerland, Germany and Holland. It is represented in the 
Canaries and Madeira by the Wild Canary (S. c. canarius). 
It has been bred in captivity, and has been crossed with 
the domestic canary, etc. 
The winter plumage is greenish, thickly streaked with 
blackish-brown and darker green; hind-neck, forehead, mantle, 
scapulars, back, and centre of breast various shades of yellow, 
more or less obscured by greenish-grey fringes; centre of 
abdomen whitish-buff; sides and flanks buff. In summer bv 
abrasion the yellow areas are exposed and the bird appears much 
brighter in colour. 
The female is similar to the male, but has much less yellow 
in her plumage, and much more thickly striated, and the 
Striations somewhat browner than in the male. 
Beak dark horn-colour, lower mandible paler; iris intense 
blackish-brown ; legs and feet brown. 
Most of the Serins can safely be wintered out of doors, 
and all thrive well in captivity on similar food and treatment. 
To be continued. 
