page_title: Black-headed canary
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Black-headed canary / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Male Damara Canary Serinus leucolaemus. This taxon is treated as a subspecies of Black-headed Canary (S. alario leucolaemus) by many authorities. At Namaqua National Park, Northern Cape, South Africa.
context_page_description: The black-headed canary is a species of finch found in Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa. It is sometimes placed in the genus Alario as Alario alario
  Its habitat is dry open scrub and grassland, the edges of cultivation and suburban gardens.
context_section_description: The black-headed canary is 12–15 cm in length. The adult male has rich brown upper parts and tail, a white hind collar, and mainly white underparts. The head and central breast are solidly black.
  The adult female is similar, but has a dull grey head, and is dark-streaked on the head and upper parts. It has a rich brown wing bar. The juvenile resembles the female, but is paler and has streaking on the breast and a weaker wing bar.
  The Damara canary (Serinus leucolaema) is often considered to be a subspecies of the black-headed canary. The male of that form has a strikingly different head pattern, with a white supercilium, and a white throat and foreneck with a black moustachial stripe. The black of the central breast is therefore separate from the black of the head.
caption: Male Damara canary
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