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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, golden yellow : vent, under tail coverts, thighs, and 
sides, dirty white ; the latter with large longitudinal brown S 2 )ots. 
Vertex, occiput, cheeks, back, larger wing coverts, scapulars, and U 2 Dj)er 
tail coverts, brown ash, with a longitudinal brown s}3ot 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 j)lumage more dingy and indistinct ; rumj) 
only greenish yellow, with a tinge of the same round the eyes, and on 
the throat, breast, and wing coverts. 
“ Male variety . — General j)lumage 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 Linnseus, whose habitation is said by 
Gmelin and Turton to be India, is not this species, but an ap}3arently 
spurious one.* 
CAPERCALZIE {Ur ogallus vulgaris, Fleming.) 
* Tetrao urogallus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 273. 1. — Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 746. — Itaii, Syn, 
p. 53. A. 1. — WULy>- 123. t. 30 Ind. Orn. 2. p. 634. 1.— Urogallus major, 
Briss. 1. p. 182 Ib. 8vo. 1. p. 51 Tetras auerhan, Temm. 2. p. 457. — Coq.de 
Bruyere, ou Tetras, Buff. 2. p. 191. t. 5. — Capricalea, Scot. 16. t. 14. 18 — . 
Cock of the Wood or Mountain, Ruii, 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. 
lb. fol. M. M. — Arct. Zool. 2. p. 312. A. — Ib. Supp. p. 62. — Lath. Syn. 4. 
p. 729. 1. — Lewin’s Br. Birds, 4. t. 132. — Wale. Syn. 2. t. 180. — Don. Br. 
Birds, 4. t. 89. — Flem. Br. Anim. p. 46.* 
