360 FRINGILLIDiE. 



8. Serinus albigularis. 



Crithagra albogularis, Smith, S.-Afr. Quart. Journ. ii. p. 48 (1833); 



Gray, Hand-l, B. ii. p. 100, no. 7494(1870) ; Sharpe, Ann. 8f Mag. 



Nat. Hist. (4) viii. p. 230 (1871) ; id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 67 (1871) ; 



Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 217 (1882) ; Sharpe, ed. Bayard's B. 



S. Afr. p. 485 (1884). 

 Crithagra selbyi, Smith, Rep. S.-Afr. Erped., App. p. -50 f 183B) ; 



Swains. An. in Menaq. p. 319 ("1837) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 385 



(1844) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 219 (1867) ; id. Ibis, 1869, pp. 75, 



371. 

 Crithagra cinerea, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 294 (1837). 

 Crithagra sulphurata, juv., Jard. <§• Selby, III. Orn. ii. pi. 104. fig. 2 



(c. 1839). 

 Buserinus albigularis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 522 (1850). 



Adult. General colour above ashy brown, streaked with dusky 

 brown, the rump and upper tail-coverts greenish yellow, some of 

 the lateral ones brown washed with yellow ; lesser wing-coverts 

 uniform brown ; median and greater coverts dark brown, edged 

 with ashy brown, the latter with whity brown towards the ends ; 

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

 whity brown, the inner secondaries with pale isabelline ; tail- 

 feathers dark brown, edged with whity brown, slightly tinged with 

 yellow ; crown of head like the back, and similarly streaked ; lores 

 dusky, surmouuted by a narrow streak of white, continued into a 

 small eyebrow : ear-coverts and cheeks ashy brown, with a faintly 

 indicated streak of white across the ear-coverts, the fore part of the 

 cheeks white ; throat white ; sides of neck, fore neck, and remainder 

 of under surface of body pale ashy brown, the lower breast and 

 abdomen white ; sides of body and flanks pale ashy brown like the 

 breast : thighs ashy brown ; under tail-coverts white ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries pale ashy brown, the lower coverts whitish at 

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

 length (i-2 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 3, tail 2-3, tarsus - 85. 



The female apparently only differs from the male in having some 

 dusky spots on the throat, but I have no sexed specimens before 

 me. 



Hub. South Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



b, c, d. Ad. sk. South Africa (2?. L. Layard). Sharpe Coll. 

 e. Ad. sk. South Africa. Sharpe Coll. 



9. Serinus crocopygius *. (Plato VIII.) 



Buserinus albigularis {nee Smith), Monteiro, P. Z. S. 1805, p. 95 ; 



Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 369 (1881). 

 Poliospiza crocopygia, Sharpe, Ibis, 1871, p. 101 ; id. Cat. Afr. B. 



* Lettered Crithagra crocopygia on the Plate. 





