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15. Serinus leucopygius. 



? Senegali Chanteur, Vieill, Ois. Chant, pi. 11 (1805). 



? Frino-illa musica, Vieill. N. Diet, a" Hist. Nat. xii. p. 210 (1817)*. 



? Fringilla angolensis, Vieill. N. Diet, a" Hist. Nat. xxs. p. 575 



(1829). 

 ? Estrelda musica, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 369 (1849). 

 Grithagra leucopvgia, Sunder. CEfv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stockh. 



1850, p. 127 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 523 (1850). 

 Serinus leucopygos, Bp. Consp. i. p. 523 (1850); Heugl. J.f. O. 



1862, p. 31. 

 Hypocnera musica, Bp. Consp. i. p. 4o0 (1850) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. 



p. 149 (1857) ; id. J.f O. 1861, p. 259. 

 Dryospiza leucopygos, IAcht. Nomencl. Av. Berol. p. 46 (1854). 

 Fringilla (Dryospiza) leucopygia, Heugl. Sgst. Uebers. p. 41 (18")G). 

 Crithagra musica, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 651 (1870) ; Roehebr. 



Farm. Seneg., Ois. p. 258 (1885). 

 Crithagra leucopygos, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 100, no. 7496 (1870) : 



Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, vii. p. 105 (1881). 



Adult male. General colour above light ashy brown, slightly 

 streaked with dusky brown centres to the feathers ; rump white, 

 preceded by a blackish bar across the lower back ; lesser wing- 

 coverts ashy ; the remainder of the coverts and quills brown, edged 

 with ashy brown or whity brown ; upper tail-coverts and tail- 

 feathers brown, edged with ashy browu ; crown of head and hind 

 neck like the back, but a little paler and more ashy, distinctly 

 streaked with dusky brown central stripes to the feathers ; hind 

 neck uniform ashy ; lores and sides of face pale ashy grey ; throat 

 ashy whitish, browner on the fore neck and chest ; on the fore neck 

 a few dusky spots ; breast and abdomen white, as also the flanks, 

 the latter streaked with brown and washed with pale ashy brown ; 

 thighs and under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries ashy brown, edged with whitish ; quills below dusky, ashy 

 isabelline along the inner edge : " bill and claws fleshy, tinged with 

 dusky horn-colour ; legs fleshy : iris umber-brown " (Heuglin). 

 Total length 4-3 inches, culmen 6-35, wing 2-5, tail 1-65, tarsus 0-55. 



The Senaar specimen has the fore neck uniform, without any 

 dusky spots. Another specimen from the Gambia agrees with the 

 Senaar birds, but is apparently either a female or a younger bird, 

 as it has the throat white, the lower throat, fore neck, and chest 

 spotted with dusky brown. 



Hub. North-eastern and Equatorial Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. Senaar (Hedenborg). Sharpe Coll. 



b. Ad. ; e. Juv. sk. River Gambia. Sharpe Coll. 

 d. Ad. ; e. hum. sk. River Gambia. Purchased. 

 /. S ad. sk. Rodjaf, Eq. Africa, July 7, 1880 Sharpe Coll. 



{Einin Bet/). 



* I do not adopt this name of Vieillot's, as his description is by no means 

 correct, the rump being described as " greyish." His " Senegali Chanteur " is 

 probably <S'. angolensis, to which species Vieillot himself was inclined to refer 

 it in 1819. As we have the definite and characteristic name of leucopygius 

 to fall back upon, it would, in my opinion, be wrong to substitute that of 

 Vieillot for it. 



