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FRINGILLID^. 



with a whitish bar across the fore part of the ear-coverts ; fore part 

 of cheeks also whitish : throat and under surface of body dull white, 

 the fore neck, chest, sides of body, and flanks broadly streaked with 

 black ; thighs brown ; under tail-coverts dull white, mesially streaked 

 with black ; under wing-coverts and asillaries dull whitish, tinged 

 with olive-yellow ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge : 

 " bill dusky horn-colour, the lower mandible paler ; feet dusky 

 reddish : iris dusky brown " (Heiujlin). Total length 5*2 inches, 

 culmen 05, wing 2-9, tail 24, tarsus 0-85. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 5 - l inches, 

 culmen 055, wing 2*6, tail 2*3, tarsus - 8. 



The specimen from Kilima-njaro has a yellowish chin and more 

 olive-yellow on the wing-coverts, but as some of the Abyssinian 

 specimens also show a little of the latter colour, there is probably 

 no real difference between birds from the two localities. 



Hah. Abyssinia, extending to Masai-Land in East Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. N.E. Africa. Purchased. 



b. S ad. sk. Alagi Pass, S. of Antalo, W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



Mav 9, 1868. [C.]. 



c. 2 ad. sk. Senate, Tigre, Feb. 25, 1S68. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 



d. Ad. st. Abyssinia. Dr. Iiiippell [P.]. 



e. S ad. sk. Shoa, Feb. 1842 {Sir W. C. India Museum. 



Harris). 



f. <$ ad. sk. Ankober, Aug. 1842 {Sir W. India Museum. 



C. Harris), 

 a. Ad. sk. Kilima-niaro. H. II. Johnston, Esq. 



[C.]. 



13. Serinus burtoni *. (Plate VII.) 



Strobilophaga burtoni, Gray, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) x. p. 444 



(1802) ; Skarpe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 615. 

 Pinicola burtoni, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 109, no. 7041 (1870); 



Reichen. J.f. O. 1875, p. 50. 



Adult. General colour above brown, with darker brown centres, 

 the edges somewhat olive ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median 

 and greater coverts blackish, edged with olive, and tipped with a 

 white spot ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish, fringed 

 with olive ; quills blackish, edged with olive-yellow, brighter on the 

 primaries, the inner secondaries white near the end of the outer 

 web ; upper tail-coverts brown, edged with olive ; tail-feathers 

 dusky brown, margined with dull olive-yellow : crown of head like 

 the back, slightly streaked with pale olive-yellow on the fore part of 

 the crown, the feathers being edged with this colour ; a large spot 

 of white at the base of the forehead ; lores, sides of face, ear-coverts, 

 cheeks, throat, sides of neck, and fore neck dark brown, with a 

 slightly indicated pale streak above the ear-coverts, the fore part 

 of the face and throat blacker ; remainder of under surface of body 

 creamy buff, the sides of body and flanks somewhat tinged with 



* Crithagra burtoni on the Plate. 



