352 peingillidJe. 



coverts, and quills blackish brown, edged with yellowish green, more 

 broadly on the secondaries, especially on the innermost, which have 

 •a shade of ashy brown at the ends ; tail-feathers blackish, edged 

 with bright yellow, and fringed with ashy brown along the inner 

 web; crown of head golden yellow, the sinciput streaked with 

 dusky ; the occiput and nape yellowish green like the back, streaked 

 with dusky ; lores and feathers round eye dusky ; ear-coverts and 

 cheeks yellow, slightly washed with green ; throat and under surface 

 of body dull golden yellow, ashy whitish on the abdomen ; sides of 

 body and flanks golden yellow like the breast : thighs ashy ; under 

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

 quills below dusky, ashy whitish along the inner edge : " upper 

 mandible and lower mandible for its terminal third brown ; rest of 

 under mandible bluish white ; feet brownish black ; iris brown " 

 (6r. A. Fischer). Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 3*1, tail 

 2*1, tarsus 0*6. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but a little duller in colour, 

 the yellow on the wing not so bright. Total length 5*1 inches, cul- 

 men # 4, wing 3, tail 2-05, tarsus 0-55. 



Hah. N.E. Africa, from Abyssinia to Masai-land in East 

 Africa. 



a, b. 6 2 ad. sk. Adigrat, Tigre, April 21, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.J. 

 1868. (Types of species.) 



c. S ad. sk. Abyssinia. Dr. Euppell [C.]. 



3. Serinus sulphuratus. 



Le Grosbec du Cap de Bonne Esperance, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 225, pi. xi. 



fig. 1 (1760). 

 Loxia sulphurata, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 805 (1766). 

 Brimstone Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 1, p. 137 (1783). 

 Coccothraustes sulphurata, Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1000 



(1823). 



Crithaora sulphurata, Swains. Zool. Journ. iii. p. 34S (1827) ; id. 



Classif. B. ii. p. 294 (1837) ; Jard. $ Selby, III. Orn. iii. pi. 109. 



fio-. 1 (c. 1839); Gray, Gen.B.il p. 385 (1844); Grill, Zool. 



Anteekn. p. 23 (1858) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 218 (1867) ; id. 



Ibis, 1869, p. 460 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 100, no. 7486 (1870) ; 



Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 67 (1871) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 80 ; 



Ayres, Bis, 1876, p. 431 ; Salvin, Cat. Strkkl. Coll. p. 217 (1882) ; 



Sharpe, ed. Lai/ard's B. S. Afr. p. 486 (1884) ; Fischer, Zeitsch. 



yes. Orn. i. p. 321 (1884). 



Buserinus sulphuratus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 522 (1850) ; Gurney, Ibis, 



1865, p. 269. 



Adult male. General colour above yellowish green, streaked on 



the mantle and back with dusky black ; rump uniform and rather 



clearer yellow ; lesser wing-coverts uniform yellowish green ; median 



and greater coverts blackish, edged and tipped with yellow, rather 



brighter on the latter ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills 



blackish, edged with yellow, rather brighter towards the end of the 



inner secondaries ; upper tail-coverts dull yellow, streaked along 



the shaft with dusky ; tail-feathers blackish, edged with yellow ; 



