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24. Chrysomitris citrinelloides. 



Serinus citrinelloides, Hupp. Neue Wirb., Vbq. p. 95, Taf. 34. fig. 1 



(1835-40) ; id. Syst. Uebers. p. 77 (1845)'; Blanf. Geol. fy Zool. 



Abyss, p. 414 (1870); Finsch, Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 326 (1870). 

 Fringilla citrinelloides, Des Murs in Lefebvre's Voy. Abyss, p. 174 



(1845) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 371 (1849) ; id. Hand-l B. ii. p. 82, 



no. 7204 (1870). 

 Fringilla (Dryospiza) citrinelloides, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 41 (1856). 

 Citrinella citrinelloides, Bp. Consp. i. p. 520 (1850) ; Heugl. Orn. 



N.O.-Afr. i. pt. 2, p. 644 (1870) ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 228. 

 Chrysomitris citrinelloides, Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 213 (1882). 



Adult male. General colour above yellowish green, all the feathers 

 mesially streaked with black, rather less distinct on the rump ; 

 lesser wing-coverts like the back, with black centres ; median and 

 greater coverts black, edged with ashy and yellow towards the ends ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, edged with yellow, 

 the inner secondaries more broadly, the outer ones and tho primaries 

 narrowly fringed with yellowish white at the ends ; upper tail- 

 coverts yellowish green with dusky centres ; tail-feathers blackish, 

 edged with yellow ; crown of head like the back and streaked in tho 

 same manner ; lores and sides of face and ear-coverts dusky green, 

 as well as the cheeks and chin ; sides of neck and of the hinder 

 crown brighter yellow ; throat bright yellow, narrowly streaked 

 with black ; fore neck and breast yellowish green, the sides streaked 

 with black ; abdomen bright yellow ; sides of body and flanks 

 yellow, streaked with black, more broadly on the latter ; thighs and 

 under tail-coverts yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy, 

 edged with yellow ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge : 

 " bill dusky horn-colour, the lower mandible flesh-colour ; feet dusky ; 

 iris dusky brown " (Heuglin). Total length 4/5 inches, culmen 0-45, 

 wing 2-65, tail 1*75, tarsus 0*6. 



Bab. Highlands of Abyssinia and Kilima-Njaro in Eastern Africa. 



a. \s ad. sk. Senafe, Tigre, May 29, 1868. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Kilima-Njaro, 6000 feet. H. H. Johnston, Esq. [C.]. 



25. Chrysomitris melanops. 



Fringilla melanops, Heugl. J.f. 0. 1868, p. 92 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 82, no. 7205 (1870). 

 Citrinella melanops, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. pt. 2, p. 645 (1870) ; 



Fischer in Madarasz, Zeitschr.ges. Orn. i. p. 321 (1884). 

 Chrysomitris melanops, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. (2) i. p. 174 



(1884). 



Adult. Bright yellowish green, underneath deep yellow ; the sides 

 of the breast and flanks washed with yellowish green, the latter in 

 part delicately streaked with blackish ; face with a circumscribed 

 mask of black (a defined frontal margin, lores, region of the eye, 

 cheeks, and chin) ; a superciliary streak of pure yellow ; feathers 

 of the head and back and the upper tail-coverts streaked with 

 blackish ; tail and wings blackish, conspicuously margined with 



