41. SEEINUS. 373 



brown, excepting for the region of the shaft, which is brown, 

 widening towards the tip ; crown of head like the back, the fore- 

 head and sinciput golden yellow, extending back over the eye ; 

 lores, feathers round the eye, and fore part of cheeks golden yellow ; 

 ear-coverts and hinder cheeks ashy brown ; sides of neck, throat, 

 and under surface of body dull golden yellow ; lower abdomen and 

 thighs pale isabefline ; sides of body and flanks rather more ashy, 

 with faintly indicated dusky streaks ; under tail-coverts isabelline 

 white, slightly tinged with yellow ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries golden yellow ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner 

 edge. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0*35, wing 3'05, tail 2-2, 

 tarsus 055. 



Adult female. Only differs from the male in being rather more 

 ashy brown, and in having the yellow of the forehead and under- 

 parts less vivid. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2'9, tail 

 2*1, tarsus 0-55. 



Young of the year. Differs from the adult in having the yellow 

 colour replaced by rich russet ; and the golden-yellow forehead is 

 also wanting. {Dresser.) 



Hub. Syria and Palestine. 



a, b. 3 2 ad. sk. Foot of Mount Hermon. Canon Tristram [C.]. 



c. cJ ad. sk. Foot of Mount Hermon, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



June 3, 1864 (H. B. 

 Tristram). 



d. 2 ad. sk. Rukleh, Palestine, June 6, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1864 (H. B. Tristram). 



19. Serinus pusillus. 



Passer pusillus, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat. ii. p. 28, no. xliii. (1811). 

 Serinus pusillus, Brandt, Bull. Sci. Acad. St. Petersb. i. p. 366 



(1843) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 524 (1850) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 243; 



id. B. Eur. iii. p. 564, pi. 173 (1876) ; Danf. Ibis, 1878, p. 23; 



Salvia, Cat. Striekl. Coll. p. 215 ( 1882) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1883, p. 9 ; 



Tristr. Faun. $ Flor. Palest, p. 65 (1884). 

 Frinorilla pusilla, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 372 (1849) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 82, no. 7200 (1870). 

 Fringilla rubrifrons, A. Hay, J. A. S. Beng. xv. p. 38 (1846). 

 Emberiza ? aurifrons, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 476. 

 Serinus aurifrons, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 125 (1849). 

 Pyrrhula pusilla, Degl, Orn. Bur. i. p. 194 (1849). 

 Metoponia pusilla, Bp. Notes Orn. Coll. Delattre, p. 17 (1854) ; 



Horsf. § Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. ii. p. 494 (1856) ; Jerd. 



B. Ind. ii. p. 410 (1863) : Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 45 ; Bearan, t. c. 



p. 141 ; id. Ibis, 1869, p. 179 ; Pelz. t. c. p. 319 ; Hume Sf Henders. 



Lahore to York. p. 259 (1873) ; Hume, Nests $ Egqs Ind. B. p. 473 



(1873) ; Stoliczka, Sir. F. 1874, p. 463 ; Brooks, Str. F. 1875, p. 255 ; 



Blanf. East. Pers. ii. p. 250 (1876) ; Hume. Str. F. 1879, p. 108 ; 



Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 67 ; Biddulpli, Ibis, 1881, p. 86 ; 



Scully, t. c. p. 578; C. Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 115; Biddulpli, t. v. 



p. 284 ; C. H. T. Marshall, Ibis, 1884, p. 421 ; Radde, Orn. Cauc 



p. 175, pi. ix. figs. 6, 7 (1884). 



