41. serinus. 363 



Adult female. Differs from the male in not having the blackish 

 throat-spot, and in having the lores and feathers round the eye 

 ashy instead of blackish. The chin is ashy, and the remainder of 

 the under surface of the body is yellow, not so bright as in the male ; 

 the tore neck and breast greenish, and striped with dusky black 

 like the sides of the body. Total length 4 - S inches, culmen 0-45, 

 wing 2'5o, tail 2*1, tarsus - 65. 



The male from Macamac has rather a smaller bill, the general 

 tone of the colour is rather brighter, and the chin-spot is smaller. 



Bab. South Africa, eastwards from the Xuysna districts to Natal 

 and the Eastern Transvaal. 



a. $ a d. sk. South Africa. Mr. J. Abraham [P.]. 



b. $ ad. st. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.l 



c. cJ ad. ; d, e. § South Africa. Sir Andrew Smith [P.]. 

 ad. ; f. Juv. sk. 



g. <$ ad. sk. Knysna, Sept. 5, 1866 Sharpe Coll. 



(C. J. Anderssoii). 

 h. rf ad. sk. Forests near Eland's Post Sharpe Coll. 



(T. C. At more). 

 i. S ad. sk. Katberg Forests ( T. C. Sharpe Coll. 



Atmore). 

 k. 5 ad. sk. Lydenburg, E. Transvaal. F. Barratt, Esq. [C.l. 



/. <S ad. sk. Macamac, June 19, 1874 J. H. Gurney, Esq. [P.l. 



(T. L. Ay res). 



12. Serinus striolatus. 



Pyrrhula striolata, Riipp. Neue Wirb., Vog. p. 99, Taf. 37. fig. 1 



(1835-40) ; id. Syst. Uebers. p. 79 (1845) ; Heuyl. Syst. Uebers. 



p. 44 (1850); Brehm, Rets. Eabesch, p. 349 (1863). 

 Serinus striolatus, Bp. Comp. i. p. 522 (1850) ; Heuyl. J.f. 0. 1862, 



p. 31, 1868, p. 94. 

 Crithagra striolata, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. pt. 2, p. 6->3 (1870) ; 



Gray, Hand-l.B. ii. p. 100, no. 7492 (1870) ; Blanf. Geol. <$■ Zoul. 



Abyss, p. 413 (1870) : Flinch, Trans. Z. S. vii. p. 270 (1870) ; 



Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Cull. p. 217 (1882) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. 



Genov. (2) i. p. 171 (1884). 

 Poliospiza striolata, Fischer in Madardsz, Zeitschr.yes. Orn.'i. p. 321 



(1884) ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 228. 



Adult. General colour above brown, streaked with blackish brown, 

 the feathers of the mantle and back broadly edged with whity brown ; 

 the rump rather lighter than the back ; lesser wing-coverts brown ; 

 median and greater coverts dark brown, edged with lighter brown, 

 whitish at the ends; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish 

 brown, edged with pale brown, whity brown on the inner secondaries, 

 the primaries margined with dull olive-yellow ; upper tail-coverts light 

 brown, centred with blackish-brown streaks ; tail-feathers blackish 

 brown, edged with olive-yellow ; crown of head brown, streaked 

 with black and white, the feathers being black in the centre and 

 edged with white ; lores blackish, surmounted by a narrow white 

 eyebrow ; feathers round eye blackish, with a crescentic line of 

 white below the eye ; ear-coverts and sides of face blackish brown, 



