348 FRINGILLID^:. 



under surface of body fulvescent, spotted •with dusky blackish on the 

 throat, breast, and sides of body. 



Young males at first resemble the old females and gradually assume 

 the black head by a moult. Some males have the throat white with 

 a crescent of black across the fore neck. This is apparently a 

 •winter plumage, but the want of a carefully dated series has pre- 

 vented my following out the various changes in the present species. 



Hob. South Africa, from Cape Town northwards to Damara- Land 

 and eastwards to Port Elizabeth. 



a. 2 ad. sk. South Africa. Sir Andrew Smith 



[P.]. 



b, c. S 2 ad. sk. ; South Africa. Sharpe Coll. 

 d. S juv. sk. 



e. Juv. sk. South Africa (E. L. Layard). Sharpe Coll. 



/. 2 a d- sk. South Africa (E. L. Layard). Sharpe Coll. 



g. <S imm. sk. South Africa (C. J. Andersson). Sharpe Coll. 



h. 2 ad. sk. Table Mountain, Nov. '40, 1861 Sharpe Coll. 



(C. J. A.). 



i. <$ imm. sk. Great Naniaqua-Land, June '■'>, Sharpe Coll. 



1862 (C. J. A.), 



k. 2 ad. sk. [Zambesi (Meller).} Sharpe Coll. 



41. SERINUS*. 



lype. 



Serinus, Koch, Syst. baier. Zool. p. 228 (1816) S. serinus. 



Crithagra, Swains. Zool. Joum. iii. p. 348 (1827). ... 8. sulphuratus. 



Dryospiza, Keys, fy Bias. Wirb. Eur. p. xli (1840) . . S. serinus. 



Buserinus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 522 (1850) S. sulphuratus. 



Metoponia, Bp. Notes Coll. Delattre, p. 17 (1854). . . . S. pusillus. 



Oraegithus, Cab. J.f. O. 1854, Extrah. p. cxiv S. pusillus. 



Bill of Serinus sulphuratus, from above. 



Ram/e. The whole of Africa, Southern Europe, eastwards to 

 Central Asia and North-western India. 



Key to the Species. 



a. With no distinct black streaks on the flanks, which 

 are uniform. 

 a'. Throat yellow. 

 a". No black on chin. 



* I was at first disposed to keep the smaller-billed species distinct as Scrini 

 from the larger-billed Grithagrce, and the Plates were lettered accordingly ; but 

 a further study has convinced me that no generic separation can be drawn 

 between the two sections. 



