Senegal (senegal)

and n. [ of the common jackal, Canis anthus. - Senegal mahogany. See Khaya. - Senegal parrot, Palæornis senegal us. - Senegal sandpipert, senna, shrike. See the nouns. II. n. [l. c.] A dealers' name of the small African blood-finches of the genus Lagonosticta. They are tiny birds, averaging under 4 inches long, and would be taken for little finches, but belong to the spermestine group of the Ploce idæ (not to Fringil lidæ). More than 20 species of La gonosticta de scribed alle A can; they are closely related to the numerous species of Spermestes, all likewise African, and of Estrelda and its subdivisions, mainly African, but also Indian, some of which are known to the dealers as ama davats, strawberry finches, etc. The IMG:content-0602.jpg:[graphic] Senegal Blood-finch (Lagonosticta mi nim a ). blood-finches ( Lagonosticta proper) are so called from their leading color, a rich crimson, shaded into browns, grays, and black, and often set off with pearly white spots. Several different birds share the name senegal. That to which it specially pertains inhabits Sene gambia; it is the séné gal i of the early French and the fire - bird or fire - finch of the early English ornithologists, the Fringilla senegal a of Linnæus, and the Estrelda senegal a of many writers; it is 34 inches long, the male mostly crimson, with black tail and brown belly, and the back brown washed over with crimson. L. minima is scarcely different, but slightly smaller, and has a few white dots on the sides of the breast, Sene gamb i an (sen-ē-gam'bi-an), a. [ senegin (sen'ē-gin), n. Same as polygaline. senescence (se-nes'ens), n. [ The world with an unearthly ruddy Hue; such might be the color cast by a nearly burnt-out sun in the senes cence of a system. Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 620.