434 LOXIA BIFASCIATA. SERINUS SYRIACUS. 



LOXIA BIFASCIATA, C. L. Brehm. 



[^ 232S. One.-^" Archangel." From Mr. C. F. Craemers, 

 1876, through Mr. Salvin. 



Mr. Craemers, a young Russian who worked for some time in Loudon with 

 Mr. Dresser, on returning to his own country in 1875 was especially enjoined 

 hy the latter to obtain eggs of this species, but arrived too late to procure them. 

 The year after a fine series of ekins of the bird, together with a nest and two 

 eggs, were sent to Mr. Craemers by a friend in Archangel, near which town 

 they had been obtained, as may be seen by Mr. Dresser's * Birds of Europe ' 

 (iv. p. 144), and the present is one of those eggs. Notwithstanding its large 

 size, I think it may be trusted.] 



SEEINUS HOETULANUS, Koch. 

 SERIN. 



[§ 2329. 0«<?.— Algeria, 1856. From Mr. Tristram, 1858.] 



[^ 2330. 0;?^.— " Carinthia." From Herr Moschler, 1862.] 



SERINUS SYRIACUS, Bonaparte. 



[§ 2331. T^i^o.— Hazreen, Palestine, 16 Jmie, 1864. From 

 Mr. Tristram. 



The place is in the valley of the Kadisha in the Lebanon. There were four 

 eggs, the remaining two being in Mr. Salvia's collection. Canon Triotram 

 (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 447) described this species as new under the name 

 of S. aurifrons, which — Mr. Blyth having pointed out (Ibis, 1867, p. 45) that 

 he had applied that name to another species, — Mr. Dresser (Birds of Europe, 

 iii. pp. 555, 556) changed to S. canonicus. The Canon's notes on the bird's 

 habits, with two excellent figures by Mr. Wolf, are given in • The Ibis ' for 

 1868 (pp. 207, 208, pi. vii.), and repeated in the ' Fauna and Jlora of Palestine ' 

 (p. 85).] 



