342 FRrNGILLID-E. 



median coverts also bright yellow; greater coverts white, exter- 

 nally washed with yellow ; bas card-wing ashy, with a black central 

 streak, externally yellowish white ; primary-coverts and quills 

 blackish, externally edged with ashy white, a little browner and 

 more isabelline on the inner secondaries ; upper tail-coverts yellow ; 

 tail-feathers blackish, edged with whitish isabelline ; crown of head, 

 sides of face, and entire under surface of body bright yellow, the 

 feathers white at the base ; cheeks whiter ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries yellow, or white edged with yellow ; quills below blackish, 

 ashy isabelline along the inner edge. Total length 4 - 5 inches, oil- 

 men 0-4, wing 2-45, tail 2, tarsus U-65. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 ashy brown, washed with yellow, the lower back and rump uni- 

 formly brown : lesser wing-coverts ashy brown hke the mantle ; 

 median and greater coverts blackish, edged externally with ashy 

 isabelline ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, edged 

 with isabelline, whiter on the primaries ; upper tail-coverts ashy 

 brown, with blackish shaft-liues ; tail-feathers brown, edged with 

 isabelline ; crown of head sandy brown, washed with yellow ; lores 

 and feathers round eye whitish : ear-coverts pale ashy ; cheeks and 

 throat whitish ; foi e neck and breast pale yellow ; abdomen whiter ; 

 sides of body and flanks isabelline tinged with yellow : thighs and 

 under tail-coverts isabelline, the latter tinged with yellow ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries whitish, with a yellowish tinge ; quills 

 below dusky, ashy whitish along the inner edge. Total length 

 4 - 5 inches, culmen 04, wing 2 - 25, tail 2. 



A female presented by Dr. Sclater is more yellow on the back 

 than the bird described, and has the mantle-feathers centred with 

 dusky blackish; sides of face and entire under surface of body sulphur- 

 yellow. 



Hah. Arabia. 



a,b.($2 ac b sk. Aden. C. Chevalier, Esq. [P.]. 



c. 2 ad.sk. Aden. P. L. Sclater, Esq. [P.J. 



39. P0LI0SPIZA. Ty e 



Poliospiza, Up. Consp. i. p. 519 (1850, ex Schiff. 



M8S.) . P. gularis. 



? Tephrospiza, Ilekhinb. Syst. Av. Taf. lxxv. fig. 15 



(1850J Typo baud indicate. 



Bill of Poliospiza gulari* J from above. 

 Rantje. Confined to Africa. 



