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

 brown, externally edged with the same colour as the back and 

 tipped with white, forming a double wing-bar; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills dark brown, edged with olive, the inner 

 secondaries whity brown at the ends of tbe inner web; upper tail- 

 coverts like the back, with small whitish tips ; tail-feathers dark 

 brown, edged with dull olive-yellow ; crown of head like the back, 

 but broadly centred with dull blackish brown, the forehead tinged 

 with yellow ; lores dull ashy ; feathers round eye, ear-coverts, and 

 cheeks dusky brown, with a pale streak across the lower ear-coverts ; 

 throat white, mottled with blackish spots on the chin and upper 

 throat ; remainder of under surface pale ashy brown, rather lighter 

 than the back and tinged with olive-yellow, with which some of the 

 feathers are edged ; sides of body and Hanks like the breast ; thighs 

 dark brown ; vent and under tail-coverts whitish, slightly tinged 

 with yellow ; under wing- coverts and axillaries like the breast ; 

 quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge. Total length 6 inches, 

 culmen 0-55, wing 2 - 45, tail 2-25, tarsus 0-75. 

 Hub. South Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. South Africa (E. L. Layard). Sharpe Coll. 



(Type of species.) 



11. Serinus scotops. 



Crithagra scotops, Sunder. (Efv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stoekh. 1850, 

 p. y«; Grill, Zool. Antechn. p. 24 (1859); Layard, B. S. Afr. 

 p. 218 (1807) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 100, no. 7504 (1870) ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 07 (1871) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1876, p. 431 ; 

 Butler, Feilden, 8{ Reid, Zool. 1882, p. 301 ; Sharpe, ed. LayarcTs 

 B. S. Afr. pp. 487, 850 (1884). 



Adult male. General colour above yellowish green, rather broadly 

 streaked with black centres to the feathers, the rump uniform 

 yellowish green, rather brighter ; lesser wing-coverts uniform 

 yellowish green ; median and greater coverts blackish, externally 

 edged and tipped with brighter yellow, especially on the latter ; 

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

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

 the secondaries ; upper tail-coverts yellowish green, streaked with 

 dusky blackish ; tail-feathers dusky blackish, edged with yellow ; 

 crown of head like the back, but more narrowly streaked with 

 blackish ; lores, base of forehead, and feathers at base of bill 

 dusky blackish ; a distinct eyebrow of golden yellow ; ear-coverts 

 and cheeks uniform yellowish green like the sides of the neck ; chin 

 dusky ashy ; remainder of the throat golden yellow ; fore neck 

 uniform yellowish green ; chest and remainder of under surface of 

 body .golden yellow, the sides of body and flanks streaked with 

 dusky blackish ; thighs yellowish green ; under tail-coverts yellow ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries yellow ; quills below dusky, ashy 

 along the inner edge. Total length 4 # 8 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 

 2 - 55, tail 1"9, tarsus 0*65. 



