184 SERINDS SCOTOPS. 



and found them fairly abundant throughout the warmer parts 

 of Abyssinia. At Senafe, which is about the northern limit 

 of the range of the species, Dr. Blanford obtained a specimen 

 which is now in the British Museum. 



Serinus scotops. 



Crithagra scotops, Sundev. CEfv. K. Vet. Akad. Forh. Stockh. 1850, p. 98 



Transvaal. 

 Serinus scotops, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 362 Crtj^e Col. Transvaal ; 



Shelley, B. Afr, I. No. 293 (1896) ; Stark, Faun. S. Afr. B. i. p. 177 



(1900). 



Adult. Forehead blackish ; crown, back of neck, back, scapulars and 

 wing-coverts yellowish green strongly streaked with black centres to the 

 feathers ; rump and upper tail-coverts uniform, the former washed with 

 yellow ; remainder of the wings brownish black, the feathers with pale outer 

 edges of olive yellow, broadest and more yellow at the ends of the median 

 and greater-coverts and the inner secondaries ; inner edges of the quills and 

 the under wing-coverts white, the latter washed with yellow. Tail blackish 

 brown, with rather yellowish olive edges to the feathers. A pale yellow 

 eyebrow ; sides of head uniform ashy olive ; sides of neck, lower throat and 

 crop nearly uniform yellowish green separated from the olive-black chin 

 by a patch of bright yellow ; breast and under tail-coverts bright yellow, 

 with the sides strongly streaked with black and shghtly tinted with ohve. 

 "Iris dark brown; bill dusky, with the under mandible paler; tarsi and 

 feet dusky" (Barratt). Total length 54 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-9, tail 

 2-3, tarsus 0-65. <? , 10. 8. 81. Drakensberg (Butler). 



Sundevall's Canary ranges over eastern South Africa, west- 

 ward to Cape Colony and northward into the Transvaal. 



The most western locality known to me for this species is 

 the Knysna in Cape Colony, where Andersson and Victorin 

 both met with it. In the British Museum there are speci- 

 mens from Bland's Post and the Katberg Forest, obtained by 

 Mr. Atmore. 



Colonel E. A. Butler found the species not uncommon in 

 the kloofs on the Drakensberg, near Newcastle, and remarks : 



