41. serinus. 371 



feathers ; rump uniform olive-yellow ; lesser wing-coverts olive- 

 yellow ; median and greater coverts black, edged with yellow, the 

 latter tipped with whitish ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts black, 

 margined with ashy yellow ; quills dark brown, edged with ashy 

 brown, tinged with yellow on the primaries ; upper tail-coverts 

 ashy brown washed with olive -yellow, with darker brown centres ; 

 tail-feathers dark brown, edged with ashy brown, tinged with yellow ; 

 crown of head olive-yellow, streaked with blackish centres to the 

 feathers and slightly washed with ashy ; forehead dull golden 

 yellow, extending backwards over the eye ; lores dusky yellow ; 

 eyelid and sides of face dull golden yellow, with a dusky streak 

 across the lower ear-coverts ; cheeks dull golden yellow, with a 

 dusky malar stripe : throat and under surface of body dull golden 

 yellow ; the sides of the upper breast ashy grey ; the sides of the 

 body and flanks more ashy and streaked with black, more broadly 

 on the latter; lower abdomen, 'thighs, and under tail-coverts 

 whitish ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale ashy, washed with 

 yellow; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge. Total 

 length 4-55 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 2-75, tail 2-2, tarsus T65. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but a little browner, and 

 having the yellow on the forehead, sides of face, and underparts 

 less vivid. Total length 4-6 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 2-6, tail 2*1, 

 tarsus - 65. 



In winter there is very little difference from the summer 

 plumage, except that the general aspect of the birds is more ashy, 

 most of the feathers being edged with the latter colour. 



Nestling. Upper parts brownish grey, marked with indistinct 

 blackish shaft-stripes ; an indistinct ochreous grey stripe over the 

 eye ; sides of the head, neck, and upper breast ochreous grey, 

 on the fore part of the face and throat tinged with pale yellow ; 

 lower breast pale yellowish, fading into white on the abdomen ; 

 flanks and crissum yellowish grey ; rectriees blackish, on the under- 

 side broadly margined with greenish yellow, and on the upper with 

 yellowish grey ; wings crossed by two bars, the larger and smaller 

 coverts being tipped with yellowish grey ; quills blackish, edged 

 with greenish grey : shoulders and some of the smaller wing- 

 coverts pale yellowish green ; iris blackish brown ; bill horn-colour, 

 the under mandible paler ; legs blackish brown. The entire 

 pin mage is in general blurry in coloration, more so than in the 

 colour of the Siskin. (Dresser.) 



Obs. According to Dr. Bolle, the male in the first year after its 

 birth wears a plumage closely resembling that of the female, and 

 the full adult plumage, as described above, is not obtained until its 

 second year. 



Hub. Madeira, Canary Islands, and Azores. 



a. Ad. sk. Madeira. C. Darwin, Esq. [P.]. 



/;. Ad. sk. Madeira. Sharpe Coll. 



c, d, e. Ad. sk. Madeira (F. G.). Salvin-GodmanColl. 



f. S ad. sk. Madeira, June 23, 1861 (F. G.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



g, h. cJad.sk. Teneriffe, April 9, 1871 (F. G.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



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