![]() ^ a b Gill, Frank Donsker, David Rasmussen, Pamela, eds."The phylogenetic relationships and generic limits of finches (Fringillidae)" (PDF). ^ Zuccon, Dario Prŷs-Jones, Robert Rasmussen, Pamela C.The two stars (**) at the start of the section indicates that Brisson based his description on the examination of a specimen. ![]() Ornithologie, ou, Méthode Contenant la Division des Oiseaux en Ordres, Sections, Genres, Especes & leurs Variétés (in French and Latin). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Its call is chissick or cheree, and the song is a warbled zee-zeree-chereeo. ![]() The yellow canary is a common and gregarious seedeater. Its habitat is karoo and coastal or mountain valley scrub. The brimstone canary, with overlapping range, is a known confusion species. This species is easily distinguished from the yellow-fronted canary by its lack of black facial markings, and its bill is less heavy than that of other similar African Crithagra species. The juvenile resembles the female, but has heavier streaking. The underparts are white with brown streaking. The female has grey-brown upperparts, black wings with yellow flight feathers, and a pale supercilium. The underparts, rump and tail sides are yellow. The adult male colour ranges from almost uniform yellow in the northwest of its range to streaked, olive backed birds in the southeast. The yellow canary is typically 10 cm in length. marshalli ( Shelley, 1902) – southeast Botswana, central, northeast South Africa and lowlands of Lesothoĭescription Male in Mokala National Park guillarmodi (Roberts, 1936) – highlands of Lesotho flaviventris ( Gmelin, JF, 1789) – extreme south Namibia and west, southwest South Africa ![]() damarensis ( Roberts, 1922) – southwest Angola, Namibia, Botswana and central north South Africa In the reorganisation to create monophyletic genera, Serinus was split and a number of species including the yellow canary were moved to the resurrected genus Crithagra that had originally been introduced in 1827 by the English ornithologist William Swainson. The yellow canary was formerly placed in the genus Serinus but a phylogenetic study published in 2012 found that the genus was polyphyletic. Gmelin based his account on the "Le Gros-bec jaune du Cap de Bonne Espérance" that had been described and illustrated in 1760 by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson. The specific epithet flaviventris is from Latin flavus meaning "yellow" and venter, ventris meaning "belly". He specified the location as the Cape of Good Hope. ![]() He placed it with the crossbills in the genus Loxia and coined the binomial name Loxia flaviventris. The yellow canary was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. It is a resident breeder in much of the western and central regions of southern Africa and has been introduced to Ascension and St Helena islands. The yellow canary ( Crithagra flaviventris) is a small passerine bird in the finch family. ![]()
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