356 FKINGII,IJD.ffi. 



dusky streaks; lores dusky, surmounted by abroad eyebrow from 

 the base of the nostrils ; eyelid yellow ; ear-coverts greenish yellow, 

 with a broad band of yellow across the fore part of the ear-coverts 

 from below tbe eye ; cheeks greenish yellow, bright yellow at the 

 base of the lower mandible ; throat and under surface of body golden 

 yellow, with a slight greenish tinge on the sides of body and flanks ; 

 thighs, under tail-coverts, under wing-coverts, and axillaries bright 

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

 length 5 inches, culmen 0*45, wing 2*8, tail T85, tarsus 0"65. 



Hob. South Africa from Great Namaqua-Land and Damara-Land 

 to the Transvaal, and in East Africa as high as the Zanzibar district 

 and Equatorial Africa. 



a, b. rf ad. sk. Tete, Zambesi. Sir J. Kirk [C.]. 



c. cf ad. sk. Transvaal {T. Ayres). Sharpe Coll. 



d. c? ad. sk. Macamac. F. A. Barratt, Esq. [C.]. 



e. J ad. sk. Koy's Fountain, Great Na- Sharpe Coll. 



maqua-Land, June 19, 

 1862 {C.J. Andersson). 



f. 2 a d- sk. Aamhoup, Great Namaqua- Sharpe Coll. 



Land, July 4,1861(C.«7.^.). 



g. <$ ad. sk. Damara-Land {C.J. A.). Sharpe Coll. 



6. Serinus icterus. 



Loxia butyracea, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 304 (1760, nee Fringilla buty- 



racea, L.). 

 Serin de Mozambique, Daubeni. PI. Enl. iv. pi. 304. fig. 2 {nee fig. 1). 

 Yellow-fronted Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 1, p. 130 (1783). 

 Fringilla ictera, Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 972 (1823). 

 Crithagra chrysopyga, Swains. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 206, pi. 17 (1837); 



Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 385 (1844); Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 154 



(1857) ; E. Newt. Ibis, 1861, p. 272 ; Hartl J. f. O. 1801, p. 260 ; 



Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 321 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 219 (1867) ; 



Sperling, Ibis, 1868, p. 290 ; Layard, Ibis, 1809, p. 371 ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 100, no. 7495 (1870) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 482 ; 



id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 07 (1871) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 257 ; Gurney 



in Anderss. B. Dam.-Ld. p. 182 (1872) ; Shelley $■ Buckley, Ibis, 



1872, p. 290 ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 715 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, 



p. 80 ; Nicholson, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 130 ; Ayres, Ibis, 1880, p. 108 ; 



Sharpe in Oates' Matabele Land, App. p. 322 (1881 ) ; Bocaye, Orn. 



Angola, p. 368 (1881) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1882, p. 73 ; Shelley, t. c. 



p. 358 ; Schalow, J.f. O. 1883, p. 364; W. A. Forbes, Ibis, 1883, 



p. 525 ; Shelley, t. c. p. 549 ; Fischer, Zeitschr. yes. Orn. i. p. 322 



(1884) ; Sharpe, Voy. ' Alert; p. 482 (1884). 

 Crithagra chrysopogon, Gordon, Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 9. 

 Fringilla (Dryospiza) aurifrons, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 42 (1856). 

 Serinus icterus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 523 (1850) ; Schl. P. Z. S. 1800, 



p. 424. 

 Crithagra hartlaubi, Bolle, J. f. O. 1858, p. 355 ; Gurney, P. Z. S. 



1864, p. 3; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 100, no. 7489 (1870) ; Holub 



# Pelz. Beitr. Orn, Sudafr. p. 134 (1882). 

 ? Crithagra barbata, Heugl. J.f. O. 1804, p. 248 ; id. Orn, NO.- Afr. 



i. pt. 2, p. 049, iv. App. p. cxliv ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 100, no. 



7491 (1870) ; Hartl. Abhandl. not. ' Ver. Bremen, viii. p. 204 



(1882). 



