1 54 BIRDS or EGYPT. 



124. Serinus hortulanus, Koch. Serin Finch. 



Von Heuglin (Orn. N. O. Afr. p. 647) mentions that he 

 met with the Serin Finch in the Delta and in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Cairo in pairs and small flocks during the month 

 of March. 



3fale. — ^Forehead, breast, and rump bright lemon -yellow, 

 the lower abdomen and vent white ; cheeks yellow, tinged 

 with greenish ; upper surface of the body olive-green, with 

 central streaks of dark brown to each feather, the flanks also 

 streaked with dark brown ; bill brownish white, the lower 

 mandible paler ; feet fleshy brown ; iris dark brown. 



Total length 4'5 inches; culmen 0*35; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 2'8 ; tarsus 0'5. 



Female. — Much duller than the male, and having no 

 yellow forehead ; breast not so bright, and streaked all over 

 with brown markings. 



Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 195. 



125. LiNOTA CANNABiNA (Limi.). Linnet. 



This is a common winter visitant to Lower Egypt, where 

 it remains until the end of February. I have never met with 

 it above Cairo ; but it probably ranges into Nubia, as it is 

 mentioned by Blasius as occurring in Abyssinia. 



My description is taken from a female specimen, which 

 I shot in the middle of February in the Delta. 



Top of the head, nape, and ear-coverts ashy grey ; centre 

 of the feathers on the top of the head dark brown ; forehead 

 marked with cherry-colom-ed reflections ; back, scapulars, and 

 wing-coverts chestnut ; primaries black, edged with white ; 



