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yellower ; no yellow separating the crown from the olive of the back ; 

 tail-feathers olive green with their inner webs blackish and with yellow ends ; 

 throat black surrounded by golden yellow ; flanks washed with olive. Bill 

 dull pale lemon yellow ; feet rosy yellow." (Oscar Neumann.) 



The Kilimanjaro Short-tailed Finch inhabits the mountain 

 of Kilimanjaro. 



The type is a male procured by Mr. Oscar Neumann on 

 Mount Kilimanjaro, at an elevation of between 9,000 and 

 10,000 feet, and I am not aware of any other specimen having 

 been obtained. I do not find in the description any character 

 for distinguishing this form from the immature male of 

 L. olioaceus, and should not be surprised if the type proved 

 to be a young bird of that species. 



Genus III. CHBYSOMITRIS- 



Bill rather long and attenuated, very acute, and the sides not swollen 

 but proceeding in a straight line to the tip. This latter character distin- 

 guishes its members from all the other Ethiopian Finches. Nostrils hidden 

 by bristles. Wing, with the three first primaries longest and about equal ; 

 secondaries falling short of the tip of the wing by more than the length of 

 the tarsus. Tail generally, but not always, slightly forked. 



Type. 



Chysomitris, Bole, Isis, 1828, p. 322 C. spinus. 



The genus ranges over Europe, Asia, Africa and America and is repre- 

 sented by about 24 species, of which only 1 occurs in the Ethiopian region, 

 and this is confined to South Africa. 



Chrysomitris totta. (PL 24, fig. 1.) 



Loxia totta, Sparrm. Mus. Carls, i. pi. 18 (1786) Cape. 



Chrysomitris totta, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 231 (1888) Cape 

 Col.; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 250 (1896); Stark, Faun. S. Afr. B. i. 

 p. 182 (1900). 



Adult. Upper parts brown with a wash of yellow on the rump ; crown, 

 back of neck and the upper tail-coverts paler brown than the mantle and 

 with faintly marked darker shaft-stripes, quills and tail-feathers darker 

 uniform brown with white terminal edges, broadest on the tail, especially on 

 the outer feathers ; under surface of wings brown with whitish brown under 

 wing-coverts ; sides of head as well as the thighs and under tail-coverts 

 uniform pale brown ; throat and breast dull yellow. " Iris brown ; bill pale 



