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which extends to the forehead and blends into the yellow of the under parts. 

 Total length 5 inches, wing 3-24, tail 2-28." 



The Huilla Canary inhabits Mossamedes. 



The types, apparently a male and female, were procured by 

 Father Antunes at Huilla, and this is all that is yet known 

 regarding this apparently well-marked species, so I have 

 translated Sousa's descriptions of the plumage. 



This species appears to me to belong to the group which 

 includes S. canicollis and S. flavivertex. 



Serinus dorsostriatus. 



Crithagra dorsostriatus, Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1887, p. 72 Kagchi, Wcmbcrc, 

 Victoria Nyanza, Shasha. 



Serinus dorsostriatus, Eeichen. Vog. D. 0. Afr. p. 196 (1894) ; Shelley, 

 B. Afr. I. No. 300 (1896) ; Jackson, Ibis, 1899, p. 623 Elgcyit ; 

 Neum. J. f. 0. 1900, p. 288 Masai. 



Serinus maculicoUis, Sharpe, Bull. B. 0. C. iv. p. 41 (1895) ; id. P. Z. S. 

 1895, p. 470, pi. 27, fig. 1 Somali; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 303 

 (1896); Elliot, Field-Columb. Mus. Orn. i. No. 2, p. 36 (1897) 

 So7nali ; L. Phillips, Ibis, 1898, p. 399 Somali ; Hawker, Ibis, 1899, 

 p. 63 Somali; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1901, ii. p. 302 Somali; Grant 

 and Eeid, Ibis, 1901, p. 625 S. Abyssinia. 



Serinus xantholaema, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. 1896, p. 44 Somali. 



Adult male. Forehead, a broad eyebrow and the lower back canary 

 yellow ; crown and back of neck yellowish olive, with narrow blackish 

 shaft-streaks ; mantle of the same colour but with broad dark centres to the 

 feathers ; upper tail-coverts olive yellow ; tail dark brown, the feathers with 

 narrow yellow outer edges and white terminal margin to some of the outer 

 ones. Wing blackish brown, with buffy yellow outer edges to the feathers, 

 narrowest on the primary- coverts and primaries ; inner edges of quills and 

 the under-coverts ashy white, the latter washed with yellow, mostly so 

 towards the bend of the wing. Sides of head yellow inclining to white in 

 front of the eye, and shading into pale olive brown on the ear-coverts ; an 

 ill-defined mustachial band; chin, throat, and chest bright canary yellow; 

 remainder of breast, thighs and under tail-coverts white ; flanks streaked 

 with black. " Iris brown ; bill, upper mandible horn-brown, lower one 

 paler; feet dusky brown " (Fischer). Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-35, 

 wing 2-75, tail 21, tarsus 0-55. S , 18. 8. 96. Elgeyu (Jackson). 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but differs in having the upper throat 



