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ear-coverts and remainder of cheeks dark ashy grey ; throat, fore 

 neck, and chest olive-yellow, becoming brighter yellow on the breast 

 and abdomen, the lower abdomen whitish ; sides of body and flanks 

 ashy grey ; thighs pale ashy ; under tail-coverts yellow or white 

 washed with yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy whitish 

 washed with yellow ; quills below dusky brown, ashy whitish along 

 the inner edge : " bill brown ; iris yellowish brown " (Loche). Total 

 length 4-8 inches, culmen 0-3, wiug 3, tail 2*1, tarsus 0-55. (Mas. 

 H. Seebohm.) 



Adult female. Much duller than the male and browner above, the 

 yellow colour of the forehead and underparts also duller. Total 

 length 4*5 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 3-05, tail 2, tarsus 0-55. 



Young male in Jirst winter. Similar to the adult female but 

 browner ; the head ashy brown, with black central streaks like the 

 back. 



Hob. Central and Southern Europe. 



a. Ad. sk. Europe. J. Gould, Esq. 



b, c. d $ ad. sk. Nice, Nov. 1886. Prof. Giglioli [P.]. 



21. Chrysomitris totta. 



Loxia totta, Sparrm. Mus. Carls, i. pi. 18 (1786). 



Citrinella totta, Bp. Consp. i. p. 520 C1850); Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. 



p. 66 (1871). 

 Frmgilla totta, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 202 (1867) ; Grill, Zool. Anteckn. 



p. 24 (1858) ; Gray, Hand-L B. ii. p. 82, no. 7203 (1870). 

 Chrysomitris totta, Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll, p. 214 (1882). 

 Serinus totta, Sharpe, ed. Bayard's B. S. Afr. p. 488 (1884). 



Adult male. General colour above chocolate-brown, faintly mottled 

 with darker centres to the feathers of the mantle : rump dull olive- 

 yellow ; wing-coverts uniform chocolate-brown, with a slight yellow- 

 ish tip to the median and greater coverts, bastard-wing and primary- 

 coverts chocolate-brown ; quills brown, externally black and having 

 a subterminal mark of black before the tip, which is white ; upper 

 tail-coverts brown, darker in the centre and edged with whitish; 

 tail-feathers black, tipped with a white spot, increasing in size 

 towards the outer feather ; crown of head dull olive-yellow, with dusky 

 centres to the feathers ; lores ashy, surmounted by a narrow line of 

 olive-yellow, forming an indistinct eyebrow ; ear-coverts and sides 

 of face dull ashy, washed with olive-yellow ; cheeks rather brighter 

 olive-yellow, streaked with dusky brown ; throat and under surface 

 of body olive-yellow, clearer and brighter yellow on the throat and 

 abdomen, the throat with a few blackish spots ; sides of body and 

 flanks browner ; thighs ashy brown ; under tail-coverts ashy brown, 

 with whitish edges ; under wing-coverts and axillaries light ashy, 

 washed with pale yellow ; quills below dusky brown ; ashy along 

 the inner edge. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-8, tail 

 1'9, tarsus 0-6. 



The female appears to differ only in being browner, without any 

 yellow on the head, which is brown like the back and streaked with 



