SERINUS CAPISTRATUS. 185 



" It associates in small flocks, and has similar habits to 

 S. canicollis, but is more of a woodland species." 



The type was procured by Wahlberg during his journey 

 into the Transvaal, and in the British Museum there are 

 specimens from Macamac and Lydenburg. In the latter 

 district Mr. T. Ayres found the species " pretty generally dis- 

 tributed amongst the woods and bushes ; but seems to prefer 

 the forests, where it feeds among the foliage of the trees." 



The present species is remarkably like 8. citrlnelloides, 

 Rupp., from which it chiefly differs in its having a stouter bill, 

 a character which I unfortunately overlooked when I referred 

 the Nyasaland birds to this species (Ibis, 1894 and 1898). 

 I may here remark, that these two Finches differ from each 

 other in much the same manner as my Farus parvirostris 

 differs from P. afer, Grm., yet these two Finches have generally 

 been placed in different genera. 



Serinus capistratus. (Pi- 24, fig. 2.) 



Crithagra capistrata, Finseh, in Finsch and Hartl. Vog. 0. Afr. p. 458 



(1870) Galungo Alio. 

 Serinus capistratus, Sharpe, Cat. B. il. xii. p. 359 (1888) Landana, 



Congo; Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1892, p. 51 Btikoba; Shelley, B. Afr. I. 



No. 287 (1896). 

 Fringillaria capistrata, Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1887, p. 301 Manyanga. 



Adult male. Front of head jet black, which colour extends in a narrow 

 band across the forehead and widens out considerably on the sides of the 

 head and the chin ; the black forehead is succeeded by a broad baud of 

 light yellow surrounding the front and sides of the crown ; remainder of 

 the upper parts yellowish green, with blackish shaft-stripes on the mantle ; 

 rump slightly more washed with yellow ; wing and tail blackish brown, 

 with pale edges to the feathers, yellowest at the ends of the median and 

 greater - coverts, outer secondaries and tail-feathers, and green on the 

 lesser wing-coverts and inner secondaries ; inner margins of the quills and 

 the under wing-coverts brownish white, the latter washed with yellow ; 

 ear-coverts, behind the black portion of the sides of the head and the sides 

 of the neck, yellowish green, like the crown ; under parts below the broad 

 black chin yellow, with a few nearly obsolete dusky streaks on the flanks. 

 Iris dark brown. Total length 4-2 inches, culmen 0'4, wing 2-4, tail 0-55. 

 <?,3. 83. Landana (Petit). 



