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Shelley " writes that this canary is not rare in Shoa according 

 to Ragazzi, who collected only a single specimen, however, while 

 Heuglin suggests that it is rare farther north, as he never saw it 

 at all. 



Erlanger ^^ obtained a series of 17 specimens in the Hawash and 

 Arussi-Galla areas, which indicates that the species is not very 

 scarce there. Mearns noted individuals of this canary from time to 

 time along the Hawash Eiver. Ogilvie-Grant ^^ writes that it is a 

 rare and local species, Zaphiro met with it in the Managasha 

 Forest and in Gofa. One reason why some collectors have found 

 it to be apparently uncommon is that they collected largely at lower 

 altitudes than those most favored by the species. Neumann ^^ writes 

 that it lives only on the high mountains between 2,600 and 3,000 

 meters (8,500-9,000 feet). 



Granvik reported the yellow-crowned canary as occurring on the 

 eastern slopes of Mount Elgon at about 9,000 feet in large flocks 

 consisting of hundreds of individuals. 



The only information concerning the breeding season of this bird 

 is Erlanger's record of a nest with three incubated eggs on June 28 

 at Sheikh-Husein, in Arussi-Gallaland. The nest, said to be a typi- 

 cal serin's nest, was placed about 1% meters up in a bush. The 

 eggs, similar in color to those of the common European serin, meas- 

 ure from 17.5 to 18 by 12.5 to 13 mm. 



POLIOSPIZA TRISTRIATA TRISTRIATA (Ruppcll) 



Seriniis tristriatus RuppEa^L, Neue Wirbelthiere, zu der Fauna von Abyssinieti 

 gehorig, etc., Vogel, p. 97, pi. 35, fig. 2, 1840; Taranta Pass, Abyssinia. 



Specimens collected: 



4 adult males, 3 adult females, 1 unsexed. Ad is Abeba, Ethiopia, December 



30, 1911- January 3, 1912. 

 1 immature female, Arussi Plateau, 9,000 feet, Ethiopia, February 23, 1912. 

 1 immature male, Malke, Ethiopia, March 3, 1912. 



One of the females from Adis Abeba, collected December 31, is 

 molting in the tail but not elsewhere, although all the feathers are 

 much abraded. The rest of the present series are all in worn plumage. 



Shelley " writes that the immature birds have the underparts 

 "whiter and strongly striped with brown on the lower throat and 

 flanks" than the adults. The two young birds collected by Mearns 

 are not whiter below than the adults, and the striping is not con- 

 fined to the lower throat and flanks but extends over the entire breast 

 and sides and even the upper and lateral portions of the abdomen. 



10 The birds of Africa, vol. 3, pp. 189-190, 1902. 



"Journ. fiir Orn., 1907, p. 31. 



" Ibis, 1913, p. 582. 



"Journ. fur Orn., 1905, p. 354. 



" Tlie birds of Africa, vol. 3, p. 230, 1902. 



