190 SERINUS HUILLENSIS. 



Total length 51 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 3'0, tail 2-0, tarsus 0-55. 5 , 

 29. 8. 89. Kikuyu (Jackson). 



The type, a female, has the mantle rather less strongly streaked and the 

 dark streaks on the flanks are scarcely visible. 



Blanford's Canary inhabits eastern Africa between 5° S. lat. 

 and 15° N. lat. 



Tlie most southern known range for this species is Great 

 Arusha, where Fischer has procured a specimen. At Kitinika 

 on Kilimanjaro, at an elevation of 3,000 feet, Mr. Oscar 

 Neumann shot three of these Canaries in January, 1895, and 

 Mr. Jackson met with the species in the Kikuyu country, in 

 August and September, 1889. In Shoa, according to Dr. 

 Ragazzi these birds are not rare, but he apparently procured 

 only a single specimen. 



Heuglin suggests that it is rare in Abyssinia, as he never, 

 to his knowledge, met with the species. The type, a female, 

 was discovered by Dr. Blanford at Adigrat in Tigre, April 21, 

 1868. This specimen, as well as one obtained by Riippell, are 

 now in the British Museum. 



Serinus huillensis. 



Serinus huillensis, Sousa Joru. Lisb. 1889, p. 40, Huilla ; Shelley, B. 

 Afr. I. No. 286 (1896). 



" Adult male. (?) A broad sulphur yellow forehead ; crown, back of neck 

 and the mantle yellowish green ; rump and upper tail-coverts sulphur 

 yellow ; lesser wing-coverts like the mantle ; median coverts with broad 

 terminal white margins ; the greater coverts similarly margined with yellow ; 

 quills with yellow edges broadest on the secondaries ; sides of head, throat 

 and chest sulphm- yellow like the forehead ; abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 yellowish white ; thighs white ; tail feathers with the edges yellow, broad 

 on the four centre ones and fading into white on the outer ones ; under 

 wing-coverts whitish ; flanks shaded with green and very slightly streaked. 

 Total length 5-2 inches, wing 3-44, tail 2-44, tarsus 0-6. 



" Female. (?) Similar to the preceding, but differs in the upper parts being 

 slightly more streaked ; abdomen and under tail-coverts whitish ; ear- coverts 

 like the mantle but less streaked, and are surrounded by a patch of yellow 



