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the Birds of Yemen. 



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Pseudacantliis yemenensis. (Plate IV. fig. 1.) 



Pseudacaiithis yeuienensis O, -Grant, Bull. B. 0. C. xxxi. 

 1913, p. 89 : MenakliM, Yemen. 



a,b. c^ ? . Menakha, 7000-8500 ft. 16.i. 13 & 

 30.xii. 12. [Types.] 



c-g. 3 c?, 2 ? . Menakha, 7000-8500 ft. 23.xii. 12 to 

 31. i. 13. 



A. Jiiv. ? Sok-al-Khamis, 7000 ft. 23.vii.13. 



" This little hird is often met with among the orchard 

 terraces of Menakha, pouring ont its soul in song. It looks 

 like a sparrow and sings like a skylark. It is much in 



Text-figure 1. 



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Side of the head and tail from above of Pseudaeanthis yemenensis. 



demand at Sanaa as a cage-bird; though fairly common 

 in the district it favours, it is not widely distributed. Its 

 vei'tical range is from 7000 to 8000 ft.'' 



For this Finch Mr. Ogilvie-Grant found it necessary to 

 make a new genus, the principal characters of which are as 

 follows : — Bill short but rounded and swollen as in Serinus, 

 the lower mandible deeper than the upper ; the cutting-edge 

 of the upper mandible is not straight as in Serinus, but 

 strongly decurvcd as in Alario. The nostrils are concealed 

 by overhanging plumes. The outer (ninth) primary of the 

 wing is distinctly shorter than the 6th, 7th, and 8th, but 



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