354 FKINGILLID-2E. 



Serin de Mozambique, Daubent. PI. Enl. iv. pi. 364. fig. 1 (c?, nee 



fig. 2 = S. icterus). 

 Yellow-bellied Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 1, p. 138 (1783).' 

 Yellow Finch, Lath. t. c. p. 299 (1783). _ 

 Loxia flaviveDtris, Swains. Zool. Journ. iii. p. 348 (1828) ; Cab. Mns. 



Hein. Th. i. p. 165 (1850) ; Grill, Zool. Anteckn. p. 24 (1859); 



Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 220 (1867) ; id. His, 1869, p. 371 ; Ayres, 



Ibis, 1871, p. 267; Bocaqe, Orn. Angola,?. 369 (1881); Salrin, 



Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 216 (1882) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. 



p. 485 (1884V 

 Crithafi'i-a strigilata, Swains. An. in Menag. p. 317 (1837, £); 



Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 385 (1844) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 219 (1867) ; 



id. Ibis, 1869, p. 75. 

 Crithagra flava, Swains. An. in Menag. p. 318 (1837, S ) J Gray, 



Gen. B. ii. p. 385 (1844). 

 Crithagra butyracea, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 124 (1849); 



Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 219 (1867) : Ayres, Ibis, 1869, p. 295 ; 



Melliss, Ibis, 1870, p. 101 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. ICO. no. 7488 



(1870); Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 67 (1871); Shelley, Ibis, 1875, 



p. 80 ; id. ed. Bayard's B. S. Afr. p. 487 (1884). 

 Serinus butyraceus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 522 (1850). 



Adult male. General colour above yellowish green, with narrow 

 blackish streaks down the centre of the feathers ; the rump uniform 

 and brighter yellow; lesser. wing-coverts uniform greenish yellow: 

 median and greater coverts blackish, edged with yellowish green ; 

 bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish, fringed with dull yellow ; 

 quills blackish, edged with yellow, rather broader and brighter on the 

 secondaries ; upper tail-coverts dull yellowish, with blackisb centres; 

 tail-feathers blackish, edged with yellow ; crown of head like the 

 back, but less distinctly streaked with dusky ; the forehead and a 

 broad eyebrow golden yellow ; lores dusky greenish : feathers round 

 tbe eye yellow, as also the feathers below the eye ; ear-coverts 

 yellowish green ; cheeks also bright yellow, with a dusky greenish 

 streak from below tbe eye along the cheeks, leaving a golden-yellow 

 patcb on the fore part of the ear- coverts : under surface of body 

 bright golden yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries also golden 

 yellow ; quills below dusky, ashy along tbe inner edge. Total 

 length 5-3 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-8, tail 245, tarsus - 7. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 dull greenish, broadly streaked with blackish, the rump uniform dull 

 green : upper tail-coverts dusky, edged with greenish ; wing-coverts 

 dusky brown, edged with pale yellowish, whiter at the ends : bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, edged with pale 

 yellow, whitish on the edge of the primaries and inner secondaries ; 

 upper tail-coverts dusky, with dull greenish margins ; tail-feathers 

 dusky brown, edged with pale yellow ; crown of head more ashy 

 than the back, and streaked with dusky blackish ; lores, a narrow 

 eyebrow, and the feathers round eye ashy whitish : ear-coverts ashy 

 brown ; cheeks ashy whitish like the under surface of the body, the 

 throat uniform, the fore neck and breast slightly tinged with yellow 

 and streaked with dusky brown ; abdomen ashy whitish ; sides of 

 body and flanks ashy, streaked with dusky brown ; thighs and under 



