41. SERINT7S. 353 



crown of head like the breast, but more narrowly streaked with 

 blackish ; the nape and hind neck more uniform greenish ; lores 

 dusky, surmounted by a broad eyebrow of golden yellow ; feathers 

 round eye and ear-coverts dull greenish, followed by a broad band 

 of golden yellow ; cheeks dull greenish, with a yellow spot at the 

 base of the lower mandible ; throat golden yellow : sides of neck, 

 fore neck, and breast light yellowish green, the lower breast and 

 abdomen golden yellow : sides of body and flanks light yellowish 

 green, like the chest : thighs and under tail-coverts yellow ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries yellow ; quills below dusky, ashy along 

 the inner edge : " upper mandible dusky yellow, the under palish 

 yellow; tarsus and feet dusky; iris dusky hazel" (T. Ayres). 

 Total length 6 inches, culmen 0*55, win? 3-25, tail 2-5, tarsus 

 0-75. 



Adult female. Only differs from the male in being slightly less bril- 

 liant, with the yellow stripe along the sides of the face more obscure. 

 Total length 5-6 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 3*05, tail 2*5, tarsus 0-7. 



The specimens from Natal and the Eastern Transvaal are de- 

 cidedly brighter than those from the "Western Cape Colony: but 

 others from the eastern parts of the Colony approach the Natal birds 

 in brilliancy of plumage. 



Hah. South Africa, from the Cape Colony through Natal and the 

 Transvaal to the Masai country in E. Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. South Africa. Sharpe Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. South Africa (E. L. Layard). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 c.Ad.sk. South Africa. F. Campbell, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 d. 3 ad. sk. South Africa (E. L. Layard). Sharpe Coll. 



c. c? ad. sk. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 

 /, y. Ad. sk. George, Knysna {H. At- Sharpe Coll. 



more), 



h. Ad. sk. S.E. Africa. Sharpe Coll. 



i. cJad.sk. Eland's Post (T. C. Atmore). Sharpe Coll. 



k. 2 ad. sk. Natal, July 10 {T. L. Ayres). Sharpe Coll. 



I. c? ad. sk. Macamac, E. Transvaal, June J. H. Gurney, Esq. 



19, 1874 (T.L. Ayres). [P.]. 



4. Seriims flaviventris. 



Indian Greenfinch, Echvards, Nut. Hist. B. ii. p. 84, pi. 84 (1747). 



Chloris indicus, Selujm. Samml. ausl. Yog. iv. Taf. 63 (1755). 



Le Grosbec jaune du Cap de Bonne Esperanee, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 227, 



pi. xi. fig. 2 (1760). ' 

 Le Verdier des Indes, Briss. t. c. p. 195 (1763). 

 Fringilla butyracea, Linn. Si/st. Xat. i. p. 321 (1766, wecLoxia buty- 



racea, L. *) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 455 (1790). 



* Linnceus named two of these Seed-eaters butyracea, one being placed in his 

 genus Loxia and the other in Frinyilla. They are closely allied species of 

 Serinus ; and as the name has been productive of great confusion (e. a. the 

 S. butyraceus with English authors being S. flaviventris, and with the Germans 

 S. icterus), I have thought it better to drop the title in both instances, and use 

 only the well -assured names of S. flaviventris an 5. icterus. 



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