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rondo, and keniensis, of Mount Kenya; and a green-backed species, 

 L. kilimensis, with two forms — Jcilimensis^ of Mount Kilimanjaro, the 

 Usambara and Uluguru Mountains, and Escarpment, and a paler- 

 bellied race mmgwensis, in the highlands of southwestern Tanganyika 

 Territory (Mount Kungwe and the Poroto Mountains). Further 

 material from Escarpment may well show the birds of that area to 

 be racially separable from true kilimensis. 



The present bird is in fresh plumage ; its dimensions are as follows : 

 Wing, 71; tail, 47; culmen, 12.5; tarsus, 17 mm. 



SPINUS CITRINELLOIDES CITRINELLOIDES (Ruppell) 



Serinus dtrinelloides Ruppeix, Neue Wirbelthiere, zu der Fauna von Abys- 

 sinien gehorig, etc., Vi3gel, p. 95, pL 34, fig. 1, 1840 : Simien, Abyssinia. 



Specimens collected : 



1 male, Cofali, Etbiopia, March 3, 1912. 



1 male, Botola, Sidamo, Ethiopia, March 4, 1912. 



Neumann *- has reviewed the forms of this siskin, and his results, 

 accepted by Sclater,''^ are corroborated by the small series of all four 

 races examined by me in the present study. Ogilvie-Grant ** con- 

 siders kikuyuensis and frontalis as inseparable from hypostictus^ but 

 in this he seems to be mistaken. 



The nominate race occurs from southern Eritrea south across 

 Ethiopia to the Kenya border and the Rendile country. 



KEY TO ADULT MALES OF THE R.VCES OF SPINUS CITRINELLOIDES 



o\ Lores and cheeks gray, not black hypostictus 



fl^ Lores and cheeks black. 



6\ A well-defined yellow band on the forehead. 

 &. Upperparts light; greenish yellowish citrine, narrowly 



streaked with black frontalis 



&. Upperparts dark ; olive-green, heavily streaked with black, kikuyuensis 

 6^ No weU-defined yellow band on the forehead citrinelloides 



The two specimens collected are in fresh plumage ; their dimensions 

 are as follows: Wings, 67, 69; tail, 49, 49; culmen, 11, 11.5; tarsus, 

 14.5, 15 mm. The Botola specimen is in a subadult plumage. The 

 sequence of plumages of this bird has not yet been worked out, but 

 its apparent complexity may be gathered from van Someren's state- 

 ment *^ that in kikuyuensis the young male molts three time before 

 assuming fully adult plumage. 



Lovat, Pease, Antinori, Ragazzi, Neumann, and others have ob- 

 tained this siskin in various parts of Ethiopia but never in great 

 numbers. It is a bird of the highlands and is therefore absent 



*2 Journ. fiir Orn., 1905, pp. 355-358. 



*^ Systema avium .S'^thiopicarum, pt. 2, p. 826, 1930. 



"Ibis, 1913, pp. 579-580. 



« Nov. Zool., vol. 29, p. 172. 1922. 



