41. serdtits. 36"7 



16. Serinus angolensis *. 

 Linnets from Angola, Edwards, Nat. Hist. B. iii. pi. 129 (1750) 

 La Linotte d' Angola, Briss. Oru. vi. App. p. 81 (1760). 

 La Vengoline, Montb. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 80 (1778). ' 

 Angola Finch, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 309 (1783) 

 Fringilla angolensis, 6m. Syst. Nat. i. p. 918 (1788) ; Layard, B. S. 



Afr p. 203 (1867) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 83, no. 7212 (1870) 

 Fnngilla tobaca, Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Metk. iii. p. 969 (1823) 

 Linaria atrigularis, Smith, Rep. S. Afr. Exped. p.' 49 (1836) 

 Fnngilla atrogularis. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 372 (1849). 

 Poliospiza atrogularis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 520 (1850). 

 Crithagra angolensis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 520 (1850) ;' Sharpe, Cat. Afr 



TTo.?; 67 ( 1871 ); Gvmey in Anderss. B. Damara-Land. p. 182 



Vr )'\ B ? ca 9 e > 0m - Angola, p. 366 (1881); Sharpe in Gates' 



Matahde Land App Birds, p. 322 (1881); id. ed. Layard B. S. 



Afr. pp. 484, 8o0 (1881). 

 Poliospiza angolensis, Hartl. Om. W.-Afr. p. 150(1857) ; id. J f. O 



1861, p. 259. v ' 



Crithagra atrogularis, Reichen. J. / O. 1877, p. 29; Fischer, in 



Madarasz, Zeitschr. yes. Om. i. p. 322 (1884). 



Adult male. General colour above pale brown, broadly streaked 

 with blackish brown down the centre of the feathers ; the mantle- 

 feathers edged with whity brown ; rump bright yellow ; win°-- 

 coverts like the back, the greater coverts margined with whitish 

 towards the tips : bastard-wing, primarv-coverts, and quills dusky 

 brown, fringed with dull yellow, the secondaries whity brown to- 

 wards the ends ; upper tail-coverts pale brown with dark centres 

 aud broadly edged and tipped with white ; tail-feathers dark brown' 

 edged with white along the inner web and broadly tipped with the 

 same, the white increasing towards the outside of the tail, the outer 

 feather being white for its terminal third ; crown of head a little 

 more ashy than the back, and similarly streaked with black • lores 

 dull ashy ; a narrow superciliary line of white ; ear-coverts ashy 

 brown; cheeks ashy whitish, diagonally crossed with a blackish 

 streak : throat and fore neck black, the chin ashy whitish : remainder 

 ot under surface of body dull white : the breast and sides of the body 

 and flanks pale isabelline, narrowly streaked with blackish • thighs 

 and under tail-coverts ashy white ; under wing-coverts ashy whitish • 

 axillaris whitish, washed with yellow ; quills below dusky ashy 

 along the inner edge: "bill brownish; legs flesh-colour \ iris 

 brown (F. Bradslmw). Total length 4-6 inches, culmen 0-4 wine 

 2- to, tail 1-75, tarsus 0-5. ' s 



It appears to me that there are two species confounded under the heading 

 ot 8. angolams The specimen received from the Zoological Society has the 

 under surface of the body brown instead of dull whitish ; but I have not seen 

 a similar specimen captured in a wild state, and I do not like to separate it on 

 the strength of a caged specimen. Edwards's bird seems to have been this brown- 

 breasted form, which, if distinct, will therefore bear the name of 8 wtaolmsi* 

 while the white-breasted form will have to be called Serinus atrigularis of 



