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and uniform olive-yellow ; lesser wing- coverts bright yellow ; 

 median and greater coverts black, tipped with pale yellow, forming 

 a double wing-bar ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, 

 edged narrowly with ashy, slightly tinged with yellow, the feathers 

 all narrowly fringed with whitish at the ends; upper tail-coverts 

 pale yellow ; tail-feathers black, narrowly edged with dull yellow, 

 ashy whitish along the end of the inner web and at the tip of the 

 feathers ; crown of head, entire sides of face, and throat black with 

 a slight tinge of olive ; hind neck and sides of neck rather brighter 

 olive-yellow ; remainder of under surface of body, from the fore 

 neck downwards, yellow, a little greener on the sides of body and 

 flanks ; thighs, vent, and under tail-coverts pale yellow ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries pale ashy brown, edged with yellow ; 

 quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge : " bill and feet dusky 

 blackish." Total length 5*5 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 3, tail 2*1, 

 tarsus 0*65. 



Adult female. Altogether duller in colour than the male, the 

 upper surface being chocolate-brown, with darker centres to the 

 feathers, the head brown like the back, the sides of the head and 

 throat dusky brown washed with olive; rest of the under surface 

 very pale yellow, the sides of the body browner, and the flanks 

 streaked with blackish. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 3, 

 tail 2 - 05, tarsus 0*7. 



Hah. Highlands of Abyssinia, the Gala country, and Shoa. 



a. 3 ad. sk. Abyssinia. Purchased. 



b. 5 jun. sk. Abyssinia. Dr. Riippell [C.]. 



c. c? ad. sk. Angollala, Shoa, June 1842 India Museum. 



(Sir W. C. Harris). 



d. S ad. sk. Adigrat, Tigr6, April 1, 1868. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.1 



e. $ ad. sk. Duga Pass, S. of Antalo, Aug. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.J. 



8, 1868. 



20. Chrysomitris lawrencii. 



Carduelis lawrencii, Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1850, p. 105, pi. 5. 

 Chrysomitris lawrencii, Bp. C. R. xxxvii. p. 913 (1853) ; Baird, B. 



N. Amer. p. 424 (1858); Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 124 (1862); 



Elliot, New 8f Unfig. Birds N. Amer. pi. viii. (1869) ; Cooper, B. 



Calif, p. 171 (1870) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 132 (1872) ; 



Baird, Brewer, $ Ridgic. Hist. N Amer. B. p. 478 (1874); 



Belding, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 414 (1879) ; Cooper, op. cit. ii. 



p. 247 (1880). 

 Fringilla lawrencii, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 81, no. 7179 (1870). 

 Astragalinus lawrencii, Ridgw. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 177 



(1880) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 355 (1884). 

 Spinus lawrencii, Stefneqer, Auk, ii. p. 362 (1884) ; A. O. U. Clieck- 



list N. Amer. B. p. 262 (1886) ; Everm. Auk, iii. p. 182 (1886). 



Adult male in winter plumage. General colour above ashy brown, 

 the mantle and upper back with a certain amount of olive-yellow ; 

 lower back and rump golden yellow washed with olive ; lesser and 

 median coverts dull golden yellow, with concealed black bases ; the 



