41. SERINTTS. 365 



ashy and broadly streaked with blackish centres to the feathers ; 

 thighs and under tail-coverts isabelline butt', with black centres to 

 the feathers ; under wing-coverts and axillaries olive-yellow, the 

 former with dusky bases ; qnills below dusky, ashy along the inner 

 edge. Total length 6-2 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 3-6, tail 2-6, 

 tarsus 0-85. 



The female is not yet recognized, but it will probably be found 

 to resemble the adult male. 



Hab. Mountains of Cameroons, West Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. Cameroons. Sir R. Burton [P.]. 



(Type of species.) 



b, c. S ad. sk. Cameroons (H. H. Johnston). Brit." Assoc. [P.]. 



14. Serinus xanthopygius. 



Serinus xanthopygius, Rtipp. Neue Wirb. p. 96, Taf. 35. fig. 1 (1835- 



40) ; id. Syst. Uebers. p. 77 (1845). 

 Fringilla xanthopvgia, Bes Murs in Lefebvre, Voy. Abyss, p. 174 



(1845); Gray, 'Gen. B. ii. p. 371 (1849); Heugl. J.f. O. 1868, 



p. 90 ; Gray, Hand-/. B. ii. p. 83, no. 7211 (1870). 

 Fringilla (Dryospiza) xanthopvgia, Hetty I. Syst. Uebers. p. 42 (1850). 

 Poliospiza xanthopvgia, Bp. < 'omj . i. p. 520 (1850) ; Heugl. Orn. 



N.O.-Afr. i. p. 041 (1870), iv. p. ckiii,(1871). 

 Fringilla uropygialis, Hempr. <$■ Ehr. in Mm. Berol., unrfe 

 Carpodacus uropygialis, Lieht. Nomencl. Av. p. 48 (1845). 

 Crithagra xanthopvgia, Blyth, J. A. 8. Beny. xxiv. p. 257 (1855) ; 



Finsch, Trans. Z. S. vii. p. 270 (1870) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Cicic. 



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

 Poliospiza uropygialis, Heugl. in Peterm. Mitth. 1801, p. 24. 

 Fringilla (Poliospiza) xanthopvgia, Blanf. Geol. & Zool. Abi/ss. 



p. 413 (1870). 



Adult. General colour above ashy brown, streaked with blackish 

 centres to the feathers of the mantle and upper back ; lower back 

 and rump clear sulphur-yellow : upper tail-coverts ashy brown, 

 washed with olive-yellow ; wing-coverts uniform brown ; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills dark brown, fringed with whity 

 brown, slightly tinged with olive ; tail-feathers brown, edged with 

 ashy olive ; head a little lighter ashy than the back, with dusky 

 blackish streaks on the crown ; sides of face, region of the eye, 

 cheeks, and ear-coverts uniform ashy brown, with a few ashy 

 plumes below the eye ; throat uniform creamy white, with a 

 slight dusky malar streak; fore neck, breast, and sides of the 

 body pale ashy ; abdomen and under tail-coverts white ; sides of 

 body perceptibly streaked with dusky : thighs ashy ; axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts whity brown ; quills below dusky, ashy isabelline 

 along the inner web : " bill reddish horn-colour, the lower mandible 

 yellowish white : feet dusky reddish ; iris dusky " (Heuglin). 

 Total length 4-4 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-75, tail 1*8, tarsus 0*6. 



Hah. Abyssinia, to the Bogos Country and southwards to Shoa ; 

 Arabia. 



a. Ad. sk. Abyssinia. Dr. Riippell [C.l. 



b. Ad. sk. Senate, Tigre, Feb. 25, 1868. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



