Birds of the Gold Coast Colony ^c. 297 



This species ranges across Africa from the Niger to 

 Abyssinia. 



The upper parts of our adult females are uniform fulvous 

 brown, with only a few Sparrow-like markings on the feathers 

 of the mantle; superciliary streak buffy white; upper mandible 

 brown, lower one pale horn-coloured : the immature birds 

 are like the adult female, but have the Sparrow-like mark- 

 ings on the mantle heavier; wing-coverts and secondaries 

 tipped with white ; no yellow spot on throat ; under parts 

 paler ; inner webs of quills below pale rufous ; legs and feet 

 slate-coloured. In fully adult males the bill is black. 



32. Passer diffusus Smith. 



Passer diffusus Sharpe, Cat. B. xii. p. 336 ; Eeichen. 

 J. f. 0. 1897, p. 41 (Togoland). 



Passer simplex Fraser, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 52 (Gold Coast) ; 

 Shelley & Buckley, Ibis, 1872, pp. 282, 290 (Gold Coast) ; 

 Reichen. & Llihd. J. f. O. 1873, p. 216 (Accra). 



Passer diffusus thierryi Reichen. Orn. Monatsb. 1899, 

 p. 190 (Manga) ; Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1900, p. 45. 



Ad. (J c? (? c? <^, ad. ? ? , Gomieri, May 4, 1901. 



Not met with at Gambaga nor in the west of the Hinter- 

 land. From Gomieri, near Salaga, down to Accra, this 

 Sparrow is common. 



33. Serinus icterus (Bonn, et Vieill.). 



Serinus icterus Sharpe, Cat. B. xii. p. 356 (1888) ; 

 Shelley, B. Afr. i. no. 285 (1896). 



Serinus butyraceus Hartert, Nov. Zool. vi. p. 414 (Gam- 

 baga) . 



Crithagra chrysopyyia Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 482 (Fantee) ; 

 Shelley & Buckley, Ibis, 1872, p. 290 (Gold Coast). 



Crithagra chrysopogon Gordon, Contr. Orn. 1819, p. 9 

 (Gold Coast). 



Common at Gambaga and elsewhere. 



34. Vidua principalis (Linn.). 



Vidua Serena Hart. Nov. Zool. vi. p. 413 (Gambaga). 

 Vidua jirincipal is Sharpe, Cat. B. xiii. p. 203. 

 PonK. 



