41. SEEiNtrs. 355 



tail-coverts ashy white, the latter centred with dusky blackish; 

 under -wing-coverts ashy washed with yellow ; axillaries pale 

 yellow ; quills below dusky, ashy whitish along the inner edge. 

 Total length 5 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 2-55, tail 2-15, tarsus 

 0-65. 



Young male. Resembles the old female, but is much more mottled 

 above, the back browner, with black centres and ochreous-buff 

 edges ; wings and tail much as in the adult female, but the wing- 

 coverts tipped with tawnv buff ; the under surface of the body pale 

 yellowish, thickly streaked with dusky blackish. 



The young female appears to be more ashy above than the young 

 male, and to be whiter below, thickly streaked with dusky brown. 



Hob. South Africa. 



a. $ ad. sk. South Africa. Old Coll. 



b. c? ad. ; c. [ £ ] South Africa. Purchased, 

 juv. sk. 



d. 'S ad. sk. South Africa. Capt. Kellett [P.]. 



e. d" ad.;/. $ ad. ; South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.J. 

 fl,h.(5 2 juv.sk. 



i, k. J $ ad. sk. South Africa. Sbarpe Coll. 



I, m. S 2 a d- ; South Africa (E. L. Layard). Sharpe Coll. 



n. $ juv. sk. 



o. 2 ad. sk. Cape Colony (C. J. Andersson). Sharpe Coll. 



p. Juv. sk. Cape Town (E. L. Layard). Sbarpe Coll. 



q. Juv. sk. Port Elizabeth. Sharpe Coll. 



5. Serinus imberbis. 



Crithagra chloropsis (nee Bp., 1850), Cab. in Von der Decken's Reis. 

 iii. p. 30, pi. ix. (1869); Fimch $ Hartl. Vbq. Ostafr. p. 454 

 (1870) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 100, no, 7499 (1870) ; Shca-pe, Cat. 

 Afr. B. p. 67 (1871) ; Gurnet/ in Anderss. B. Dam.-Ld. p. 182 

 (1872) ; Fischer # Beit-hen. J. f. O. 1879, p. 353 ; Hartl. Abhandl. 

 nat. Ver. Bremen, viii. p. 204 (1882) ; Boehm, J. f. O. 1883, 

 p. 201 ; Schalow, t. c. p. 364 ; Sharpe, ed. Bayard's B. S. Afr. 

 p. 486 (1884). 



Cnthagra sulphurata (nee L.), Finsch fy Hartl. Voy. Ostafr. p. 453 

 (1870, excl. syn.) *. 



Crithagra imberbis, Cab. J.f. O. 1868, p. 412 (cf. Neivton, Zool. Bee. 

 vi. p. 88). 



Adult male. General colour above clear greenish yellow, with very 

 faint indications of dusky centres to the feathers of the mantle and 

 back ; rump more uniform yellow, scarcely brighter than the back ; 

 lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts black- 

 ish, broadly edged and tipped with yellow ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills blackish, edged with yellow, broader on the secon- 

 daries : upper tail-coverts yellow ; tail-feathers dusky brown, edged 

 with yellow, fringed with white at the end of the inner webs ; crown 

 of head uniform greenish yellow, with very faint indications of narrow 



* C. sulphurata is included in the ' Vogel Ostafrika's ' from its supposed 

 occurrence in the Zambesi region, as noticed by Livingstone. The specimens 

 procured by the Livingstone Expedition belong, however, to 8. imberbis. 



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