230 FRINGILLID.E. 



greenish yellow ; a broad margin to the wing-coverts, bright greenish 

 yellow ; upper mandible dusky, the lower mandible fleshy white ; 

 feet and iris dusky. Total length 4" 7'", bill from front 4J'", wing 

 2" 61'", tail 1" 10'", tarsus 6"'-7"'. (Heuglin.) 



Hab. Abyssinia to Shoa and Masai-Land in Eastern Africa. 



26. Chrysomitris citrinella. 



Le Serin d'ltalie, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 182 (1760). 



Fringilla citrinella, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 320 (1766) ; Temm. Man. 



d'Orn. i. p. 370 (1820) ; Roux, Orn. Prov. pi. 90 (1825) ; Naum. 



Vog. Deutschl. v. pi. 124. figs. 3, 4 (1826) ; Werner, Atlas, Grani- 



vores, pi. 49 (1827) ; Keys. u. Bias. Wirb. Eur. p. 162 (1840) ; 



Nordm. in Demid. Vog. Buss. Merid. iii. p. 187, note (1840) ; 



Linderm. Vog. Griechenl. p. 61 (1860) ; Poiuys, Ibis, 1860, 



p. 138 ; Blasius, Ibis, 1862, p. 71 ; Borggr. Vogelf. Deutschl. p. 76 



(1869) ; Elives § Buckley, Ibis, 1870, p. 193 ; Fritsch, Vog. Ettr. 



tab. 17. fig. 8 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 82, no. 7201 (1870). 

 Emberiza brumalis, Scop. Ann. i. p. 145 (1769)*. 

 Le Venturon de Provence, Daubent. PL Enl. iv. pi. 658. fig. 2. 

 Citril Finch, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 1, p. 908 (1783). 

 Spinus citrinella, Koch, Syst. baier. Zool. p. 234 (1816) ; Brehm, Vog. 



Deutschl. p. 286 (1831). 

 Serinus citrinella, Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 555. 

 Chrysomitris citrinella, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 322 ; Saunders, Ibis, 1871, 



p. 219 ; Wharton, Ibis, 1876, p. 25 ; Dresser, B. Eur. iii. p. 535, 



pis. 167, 168 (1877) ; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 213 (1882) ; 



Whitehead, Ibis, 1885, p. 39. 

 Carduelis citrinella, Gould, B. Eur. iii. pi. 198 (1837). 

 Citrinella serinus, Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. fy N. Amer. p. 34 (1838). 

 Citrinella alpina, Bp. Cat. Metod. Ucc. Eur. p. 48 (1842) ; id. Consp. 



i. p. 520 (1850) ; Jaub. et Barth.-Lapomm. Rich. Orn. p. 145 (1859) ; 



Degl. et Gerbe, Orn. Eur. p. 283 (1887) ; Loche, Expl. Sci. Alger., 



Ois. i. p. 155 (1867) ; Doderl. Avif. Sicil. p. 82 (1869). 

 Cannabina citrinella, Degl, Orn. Eur. i. p. 232 (1849). 

 Chloroptila citrinella, Salvad. Atti B. Accad. Torino, vii. p. 260 



(1871) ; id. Faun. Itcd., Ucc. p. 260 (1871) ; Gigl. Ibis, 1881, 



p. 203; id. Avif. Ital. p. 29 (1886). 



Adult male. General colour above dull olive-green, with dusky 

 shaft-streaks ; the rump and upper tail-coverts brighter yellow ; 

 lesser and median coverts uniform olive-yellow, with dusky bases ; 

 greater coverts blackish brown, tipped with olive-yellow, forming a 

 wing-bar ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, 

 edged with ashy yellow, whitish on the margin of the primaries ; 

 tail-feathers dusky brown, edged with dull yellow and narrowly 

 fringed with white along the inner web ; crown of head olive-yellow, 

 brighter on the forehead and over the eye ; the occiput, nape, and 

 hind neck, as well as the sides of the neck, dark ashy grey ; lores 

 dull ashy ; feathers round eye and fore part of cheeks olive-yellow ; 



* By some authors a reference is given to Scopoli's book (p. 205) for 

 " Fringilla alpina, 1 ' but no such page or name apparently exists in the copy 

 consulted by me. 



