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M0 SAMB1QUE
* F.
Serins de Mozambique, Pl, «?/. 364. f, 1.2.
Description* ^ H I S fpecies is very little lefs than the Canary-Urd: in
length four inches and a half. The bill, and legs, pale:
the upper parts brown : the feathers of the wings, and tail, edged
with pale : the under parts, and rump, yellow : over, and between
the bill and eye, yellow; under the eye a ftreak of the fame.
The male and female much alike.
Place. For thefe birds we are indebted to Buff on, who fays they were
brought from Mozambique, on the eaftern coaft of Africa. And
this again reminds us of that mentioned by Kolben, in his Hiftory
of the Cape of Good Hope *, which may not be far different from
this fpecies; and I the rather think this, as I have fuch an one in
my collection from the Cape, which came into my hands under
the name of Cape Canary Bird.
g- Fringilla ferinils, Lin. Sjft. i. p. 320. 17.— Kram. cl. p. 368. 7.
SERIN F, Loxia ferinus, Scop. win. i. N° 203.
Le Serin, Brif. orn. iii. p. 175. 30.—Pl.enl. 638. f. 1.
Serinns, Raii Syn. p. 92. 8.— Will. orn. p. 263. pl. 46.
Lev. Muf.
D escription, g l Z E of the fmall Linnet; length near four inches and a half.
The upper mandible grey brown, the under whitilh : the
plumage on the upper part of the body brown, mixed with yel-
lowilh green : beneath, of a greenilh yellow, marked on the Tides
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■ with longitudinal fpots of brown: on the wings a greenilh' band :
the quills, and tail, brown, margined with greenilh grey,. the-1 aft
fomewhat forked in lhape : legs brown.
This fpecies inhabits Italy, Auftria *, Stiria, and is not uncommon
in the fouthern provinces of France.
Scopoli obferves that it is, gregarious in fpring, and frequents
orchards ; is fond of cabbage and hemp-feed; frequently takes
fudden flights upwards,- and, after fluttering in the air for a little
whilfe, and warbling at the fame time, alights with expandect,
wings, nearly on the- fame- fpot from whence it arolc,
Fringilla Citrinella, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 320. 16. -
Verzellino, Olin. «ir. pl. in p. 15,.
Le Serin d’ltalie, Brif. orn. iii. p. 182. 51.
Le Venturon de Provence, PI. er.l. 658. f. 2.
Citril of Vienna, Raii Sym p, 92. 7.' — Will, ortr, 2G3. pl. 46. — Kujp. Alep.
p. 65.
r j s p j IS is rather larger than the lalhbird. The bill is brown :
the plumage on the upper parts yellowifh green, fpotted
with brown: the under, and'rump, greenilh yellow : the breaft
of the male much inclined to yellow: the lefler wing coverts
greenilh, the greater dulky, edged with green : the quills much
the fame; as are the feathers of the tail, which is a little forked
in lhape: the legs flelh-colour.
This fpecies is common in the fouthern provinces of France,
and about Rome. It is found alfo in Greece, Turkey, and other
Vol. II.
Called at Vienna, Hirngryll.
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