41. serinus. 369 



p. 215 (1882) ; B. O. U. List Brit. B. p. 49 (1883) ; Gigl. Iconogr. 



Avif. Ital. part xvii (1882); Irbi/, Ibis, 1883, p. 83; Saunders, 



Ibis, 1884, p. 375 ; Tristr. Faun. Sf Flor. Palest, p. (35 (1884) ; 



Whitehead, Ibis, 1885, p. 39 ; Beid, t. c. p. 245; Gigl. Avif. Ital. 



p. 31 (1886) ; Salvad. Blench. Ucc. Ital. p. 175 (1887). 

 Loxia serinus an nov. sp. ?, Faber, Isis, 1824, Suppl. p. 792. 

 Serious orientalis, Brehm, Yog. Deutschl. p. 254 (1831). 

 Seriuus meridionaus, Brehm, t. c. p. 255 (1831) ; Bp. Comp. List B. 



Em: $ iV. Am. p. 34 (1838) ; id. Comp. p. 523 (1850) ; Jaub. et 



Barth.-Lapomm. Bich. Om. p. 117 (1859) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 



p. 313; Locke, Frpl. Set. Alger., Ois. i. p. 157 (1867); Degl. et 



Gerbe, Om. Eur. i. p. 285 (1867) ; Doderl. Avif. Sicil. p. 83 (1869). 

 Serinus islandicus, Brehm, t. c. p. 255 ( 1*3] ). 

 Seriuus tlavescens, Gould, B. Eur. iii. pi. 195 (1837). 

 Pyrrhula (Dryospiza) serinus, Keys. u. Bias. Wirb. Eur. p. 41 



(1840). 

 Pyrrhula serinus, Muhle, Beitr. Om. Griechenl. p. 46 (1*44); Degl. 



' Om. Eur. i. p. 193 (1849) ; Linderm. Vog. Griechenl. p. 58 ( I860) ; 

 Wright, Ibis, 1864, p. 51 ; Borggr. Vogelf. Norddeutschl. p. 74 



(1869). 

 Fringilla islandica, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 371 (1849). 

 Dryospiza serinus, Cub. in Ersch u. Grubcr, Encycl. 1st sect. 50, 



p. 217 (1849) ; Lieht. Nomenel. Av. Berol. p. 46 (1854). 

 Serinus orientalis, etc., Brehm. Vogelf. p. 92 (1855). 

 Fringilla (Dryospiza) serinus, Ileugl. Sgst. Uebers. p. 40 (1856). 

 Serinus kortulorum (lapsu), Wyatt, Pois, 1867, p. 16; Drake, t. c. 



p. 427; Smith, Ibis, 1868, p. 445; Gurnet/, Ibis, 1871, p. 293. 

 Crithagra serinus, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. pt. 2, p. (547 (1870). 

 Serinus luteolus, Someyer, J.f. O. 1873, p. 223. 



Adult male. General colour above pale brown, broadly streaked 

 with black down the centre of the feathers, which are washed with 

 pale yellow; lower back and rump bright yellow; lesser wing- 

 coverts uniform greenish yellow ; median and greater coverts 

 blackish, edged with yellow and tipped with yellowish white, 

 forming a double wing-bar ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 

 quills blackish, edged with pale yellow, the secondaries ashy whitish 

 at the ends, the innermost resembling the greater coverts ; upper 

 tail-coverts brown, washed with yellow and whitish at the ends ; 

 tail-leathers dusky brown, edged with yellow ; crown of head like 

 the back, and streaked with blackish ; the forehead and nape purer 

 yellow ; nasal plumes whitish ; lores dusky ; a narrow eyebrow 

 and the feathers round eye yellow ; ear-coverts ashy grey, washed 

 with yellow and slightly streaked with dusky ; cheeks ashy grey, 

 with a pale yellow streak above them ; throat and breast yellow, 

 the lower throat ashy ; sides of fore neck and of breast streaked 

 with black ; abdomen white ; sides of body and flanks ashy brown, 

 washed with yellow and broadly steaked with black ; thighs and 

 under tail-coverts white, the latter washed with yellow and streaked 

 with blackish ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy washed with 

 yellow, the lower coverts white towards their ends ; quills below 

 dusky, ashy along the inner edge. Total length 4 - 5 inches, culmen 

 0-3, wing 2*8, tail 1-9, tarsus 55. 



In summer the colours of the male arc much more vivid, the grey 



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