SERINUS BUTYRACEUS. I93 



slightly whiter and with some large black spots, especially on 

 the lower throat. Young birds have the pale parts of the 

 head and the upper throat buff and the black spots confined to 

 a collar. 



Serinus butyraceus. 



Loxia butyracea, Linn. S. N. i. p. 304 (1766) " India." 



Serinus butyraceus, Eeichen. Vog. D. O. Afr. p. 197 (1894) ; Kaschel, 

 J. f. O. 1895, p. 342, egg ; Neum. J. f. O. 1900, p. 288, Kilimanjaro, 

 Uganda. 



Crithagra butyracea, Fisch. J. f. O. 1877, pp. 180, 206, 1878, p. 281 ; 

 1879, pp. 280, 300, 303, E. Afr. ; Bohm J. f. O. 1885, p. 42 Gonda ; 

 Oust. Bull. Ec. Haut. Etud. xxi. art. 10, p. 10 (1886) Somali; Emin, 

 J. f. 0. 1891, p. 60 Ugogo ; Reichen. J. f. 0. 1892, p. 51, Mengo. 



Fringilla ictera, Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 972 (1823) S. Afr. 



Serinus icterus, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 356 (1888) Bio Chimba, 

 Damara, Cape Col. Natal, Transvaal, Zambesi, Mombasa, Reunion, 

 Mauritius ; Reichen. J. f. 0. 1891, p. 159 Mrogoro, Tabora ; Shelley, 

 Ibis, 1894, pp. 22 Zomba; Butler, Foreign Finches in Confinement, 

 p. 34, pi. 7, fig. 3 (1894) ; Ridgway, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1895, p. 518 

 Amarante Is. ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 285 (1896) ; Woodward, Ibis, 

 1897, p. 411 Zulu; Sharpe, t. c. p. 514 Zulu; Shelley, t. c. p. 528 

 Fort Bill ; 1898, p. 379 Mlosa ; 1899, p. 368 Tanganyika Plateau ; 

 Alexander, t. c. p. 565 Zambesi; Nehrkorn, Kat. Eiers. p. 110 

 (1899) egg ; Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 135 S. Abyssinia ; Marshall, t. c. 

 p. 289 Masliona; Stark, Faun. S. Afr. B. i. p. 173 (1900); SheUey, 

 Ibis, 1901, p. 165 Palombe. 



Crithagra ictera, Shelley, Ibis, 1888, p. 301 Tangani, Mania Is. ; 

 Reichen. J. f. O. 1889 p. 284 Quilimane. 



Crithagra chrysopyga, Swains. B. W. Afr. i. p. 206, pi. 17 (1837) 

 " Senegal" ! ; Cab. J. f. O. 1878, pp. 216, 228 Zanzibar, Kitui; 

 Reichen. t. c. p. 266 Mellnda; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 589 

 Usambara, Lamu ; Fisch. J. f. 0. 1885, p. 136 Bagamoio to Wapo- 

 kovio ; Sousa, Jorn. Lisb. 1887, p. 101 Quissange ; Hartert in 

 Ansorge's Under Afr. Sun, p. 347 (1899) Masindc, Unioro. 



Fringilla (Dryospiza) aurifrons, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 41 (1856) Dokah. 



Crithagra barbata, Heugl. J. f. O. 1864, p. 248 Djur ; id. Orn. N. 0. 

 Afr. p. 649, pi. 19, fig. 5 (1870) ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 37 Tobbo ; 

 Emin, 1891, p. 60 Ugogo; Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, 1891, 

 p. 25 Usambiro. 



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