— 188 — 



At the above-mentioned places this race was very common 

 in the scrub-country. 



Hartert (Bull. Brit. Orn. Club., vol. XIX, 1907, p. 84) 

 has described a form from Ruwenzori, S. s. graueri, and says of 

 S. s. affinis Richm., that it is "with difficulty, if at all distinguishable 

 from S. s. striolatus (Riipp.) " I have not been in a positon to 

 examine any specimen of S. s. striolatus and am therefore unable 

 to express any opinion thereof. 



R e i c h e n w (Vog. Afr. III. p. 257) however, makes S. s. 

 affinis Richm. a synonym of S. s. striolatus (Riipp), and Neu- 

 mann (Journ. f. Orn., 1905 p. 353) says that specimens from 

 Kilinia-Ndjaro agree well with others from Njam-njam, whence 

 he considers S. s. affinis Richm. to be indentical with S. s. strio- 

 latus. Jackson (Ibis, 1910, p. 560) calls his specimens from 

 Ruwenzori Foliospisa striolata, at the same time making it a 

 synonym of Richmond's form, exactly as R e i c h e n o w has 

 done. Grant (Zool. Res. Ruw. Exp. i910, p. 305), however, 

 names specimens from Ruwenzori S. graueri Hart, and probably 

 Jackson's specimens belong to this form. v. Someren (Ibis, 

 1916, p. 428) styles the Nairobi specimens S.s. affinis ami no doubt 

 they are to be considered as good ones. 



Thus, of this bird the following forms have been separated: 



1. Serimts striolatus striolatus (Riipp.). 

 Hab. Abyssina. 



2. Serinus striolatus affinis Richm. 

 Hab. British & German East Africa. 



3. Serinus striolatus graueri Hartert. 

 Hab. Ruwenzori. 



4. Serinus striolatus pachyrhynchus Reichenow. 



Orn. Monatsber., 1905, p. 146. 

 Hab. South Somali (Damaso in Garre Liwin). 

 5 Serinus striolatus ugandae v. Someren. 



Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. XLI, 1921, p. 114. . 

 Hab. M: t Elgon, up to the heath zone, and South Aukola. 

 All my 7 specimens are light brownish white on the under 

 surface. Two specimens are all but greyish white. The black 

 streaks on the chest fairly broad. The throat and fore-neck in 

 some garnished with numerous citron-yellow feathers (in one 

 individual such feathers are found all over the underparts). 



The upper surface, as a rule, shading into dark-brown 

 (sometimes with a greyish wash). Male and female alike. 

 Wing, tarsus, 



66, 68, 71, 71 mm. 20, 22 mm. cTcf 



71, 71, 71 mm. 21 mm. 99 



Irides dark-brown ; bill brownish grey (lower mandible 

 lighter); legs dark brownish yellow — dark greyish brown. 



