41. SEEDTOS. 359 



, n'. Ad. 8k. Accra {J. Smith ; w. 2-4). Sharpe Coll. 



Ad. sk. Ashanti (w. B - 35 ). ' J. Gould, Esq. 



q'. Ad.sk. River Volta (H. T. Ussher; Sharpe Coll. 



w. 2-4r-245). 

 Ad. sk. Abeokuta (w. 2'45). F. Nicholson, Esq. 



"P.]. 

 cS ad. sk. Abutchi, R. Niger ( TV. A. F. ; Forbes Coll. 



w. 2-4). 



7. Serinus capistratus. 



Critkagra capistrata, Finsch in Finsch $• Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. 



p. 458 (1870); Sharpe, P.Z.S. 1873, p. 717 ; id. Sf Bouv. Bull. 



Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 49 (1876) ; Beichen. J.f. O. 1877, p. 29 ; 



Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 367 (1881). 

 Crithagra barbata (nee Ileugl.), Beichen. Corresp. Afrik. Gesellsch. 



1875, no. 10, p. 180. 



Adult male. General colour above greenish yellow, streaked with 

 dusky blackish down the centre of the feathers ; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts clearer yellow and uniform ; lesser wing-coverts like the 

 back ; median and greater coverts blackish, edged and broadly tipped 

 with yellow ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, 

 edged with yellow, broader on the secondaries ; tail-feathers black- 

 ish, edged with greenish yellow ; crown of head of the same colour 

 as the back but more uniform, with scarcely any dusky stripes ; 

 lores and a narrow frontal line of black, surmounted by an eyebrow 

 and broad frontal band of golden yellow ; feathers round eye and 

 below the latter, as well as the fore part of the ear-coverts and of 

 the cheeks, black ; remainder of ear-coverts and hinder cheeks 

 greenish yellow, the latter brighter ; chin black ; throat and under 

 surface of body golden yellow, with a few narrow dusky streaks on 

 the flanks, which are slightly greener ; thighs, under tail-coverts, 

 under wiDg-coverts, and axillaries yellow like the breast ; quills 

 below dusky, ashy along the inner edge. Total length 4-2 inches, 

 culmen 0-4, wing 2'4, tail 1*55, tarsus 0-5. 



Adult female. Xot so brightly coloured as the male and rather 

 greener, the head being distinctly streaked with dusky blackish ; the 

 forehead like the crown and not showing a frontal band ; a pale 

 yellow eyebrow ; lores dusky ; feathers round the eye pale yellow ; 

 ear-coverts greenish ; under surface of body yellow, streaked with 

 dusky blackish on the throat and chest ; sides of breast and flanks 

 greener. Total length 4*4 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-4, tail 1-6, 

 tarsus 0-55. 



Young. Like the adult female but much duller in colour. 



Hal. Congo region, West Africa. 



a. S ad. sk. Congo River. Commander Sperling 



[C.]. 



b, c. 3 5 a( i- ; d. 5 Landana, Congo (L. Petit). Sharpe Coll. 

 juv. sk. 



