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The specimens from here differ from others I have seen in 

 not having the forehead, sides of head, lower surface and upper 

 tail-coverts yellow (mostly green). Besides, the wings and tail 

 are blackish brown, darker than in the type specimen. Whether 

 the characters are constant for the Elgon specimens or those 

 occurring in East Africa, and they thus belong to a separate 

 form, 1 cannot at present decide, although it seems very probable, 

 as all my specimens are alike. 



Wing, cTcf : ad. 79 mm., juv. 77 mm. 



99- ad. 77 mm., juv, 75, 76 mm. 



Tarsus 14—15 mm. 



Irides dark-brown: bill and legs dark-grey. 



Prof. 0. Neumann has recently (Orn. Monatsber., 1922, 

 p. 13) described a new allied form: sassii, from Tschingogo 

 forests, which has a yellow tail. In Stockholm there is one 9 

 specimen brought home from Kilimanrijaro by Sjostedt, which 

 agrees very well with mine in being predominantly green, while 

 specimens from Abessynia and the northern regions, on the 

 other hand, are more yellowish. 



Serinus sulphuratus sharpei Neuni. — Rchw. III. p. 206. 



Serinus shelleyi Neum. — Orn. Monatsber., 1903, p. 184. 

 1 (5 ad. 22. 4, Lake Naiwasha. 



This race was rather rare in the acacia-country round the 

 shore of Lake Naiwasha. 



v. Someren (Ibis, 1916, p. 429 and Nov. Zool. XXV, 1918, 

 p. 272) calls his specimen frou) both British Africa and Uganda: 

 Serinus shelleyi Neum, and in the foi-mer work he makes it a 

 synonym of S. sharpei. — Reichenow (op. cit), however, con- 

 siders S. shelleyi to be a synonym of adult cfcT of S. s. sharpei. 

 Grant (Zool. Res. Ruw. Exp., 1910, p. 308) says that ''S. s. shelleyi 

 must be regarded as synonymous with S. sharpei, ox else a very 

 slightly smaller race." 



In the original description Neumann says that this form 

 is closely allied to S. sulphuratus from South Africa, but smaller: 

 total length 160 mm, Reichenow (op. cit,), however, gives 

 150—160 mm, as the total length for S. sulphuratus, and in 

 that case the difference in size should be nothing at all. But for 

 S. sharpei Reichenow gives 140 — 150 mm., which does not 

 agree, it is true, with the measurement figure of the original 

 description, but by this alteration Neumann's statement of 

 the difference in size will be correct. 



The specimen is in full dress and has a total length of 

 150 mm., wing 80 mm., tarsus 18 mm. 



Irides dark-brown ; bill light greyish brown ; legs dark-brown. 



