176 FRrNGILLICE. 



dusky below, ashy •whitish along the inner web. Total length 

 5'3 inches, culmen 06, wing 3-25, tail 2*85, tarsus 0*8. 



The winter plumage of the male only differs from the summer 

 plumage in the greater amount of olive-yellow on the upper surface, 

 the whole of the back being dull olive-yellow ; the colours below are 

 not so pure, and the under tail-coverts are slightly washed with 

 fulvous, and the grey flanks also washed with brown. The bill is 

 pale brown, with the under mandible horn-colour, instead of being 

 entirely blue. 



Adult female. Different from the male. Above dark ashy olive, 

 brighter greenish yellow on the lower back and rump ; head duller 

 ashy than the back, with a slight tinge of olive ; lesser wing-coverts 

 like the back : median coverts blackish, broadly tipped with white, 

 forming a wing-bar ; greater coverts blackish, edged with olive and 

 tipped with white ; bastard-wing and primal-coverts blackish, 

 edged with ashy olive : quills blackish, edged with olive, the small 

 speculum at the base of the primaries less distinct ; tail as in the 

 male ; lores ashy whitish ; eyelid whitish ; sides of face and ear-, 

 coverts dull ashy brown ; throat fulvous white ; fore neck, breast, 

 and sides of body ashy brown, the abdomen and i;nder tail-coverts 

 white ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white, with dusky bases. 

 Total length 5 - 5 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 3, tail 2-45, tarsus 0-8. 



Hob. Madeira. 



a, b, c. <S ad. sk. Madeira, June 20 (F. I). G.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d, e. $ 2 ad. sk. Madeira, winter {Temple Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Godman). 



Subsp. a. Fringilla moreleti. 



Fringilla moreletti, Pitcher. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1859, p. 412, 

 pi. 16 ; Morelet, Hist. Nat. Acores, p. 84 (I860). 



Fringilla moreleti, Godman, Ibis, 1866, p. 97. 



Fringilla tintillon {nee Webb § Berth.), Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. i. p. 89 

 (1867) ; Godman, Azores, p. 26 (1870j. 



Fringilla canariensis, var. moreleti, Drouet, Faun. Aeor. p. 117. 



Adult male. Similar to F. maderensis, and having a black frontal 

 band like that species, but without the pink on the lower breast, 

 the under surface of the body resembling that of F. canariensis. Total 

 length 6 inches, culmen 0*6, wing 3-2, tail 2-6, tarsus 0*8. 



Adult female. Resembles the female of F. canariensis, and like that 

 species is fulvescent below, not so ashy on the breast and sides of 

 the body. Total length 5*8 inches, culmen 0'6, wing 34, tail 2-45, 

 tarsus 0*8. 



Hob. Azores. 



a. S ad. sk. S. Michael's, Azores, March Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(F. D. G.\ 



b. 3 ; c, d. 2 S. Michael's, Azores, April Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 ad. sk. (JP. D. (?.). 



e. d ad. sk. Flores, Azores, May (F.D.G.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



