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at Djur and found tliese Finches abundant in tlie wooded 

 country westward from the Gazelle river to Kosanga, where 

 they were breeding in March and had young ones able to fly 

 by the end of April. The types of both Fringilla aurifrons, 

 Heugl. and Serinus flavifrons, Pr. Wiirtt. came from Abyssinia, 

 the former from Dokah, and the latter from Fazosfl. As 

 neither Dr. Blanford nor Mr. Jesse met with the species, it is 

 probably very rare in northern Abyssinia, and its range hardly 

 extends to 15° N. lat, 



I have called this and the next species Yellow-fronted 

 Canaries, because Lathan, in 1783, christened them Yellow- 

 fronted Grrosbeaks. 



Serinus hartlaubi. (PL 25, fig. i.) 



Crithagra hartlaubi, Bolle, J. f. 0. 1858, p. 355 W. Afr. 



Crithagra chrysopogon (nee Swains.) Gordon, Coutr. Orn. 1849, p. 9 



Gold Coast. 

 Crithagra chrysopyga (nee Swains.) Eeichen. J. f. O. 1887, pp. 301, 308 



Manyanga, Kasongo ; Eendall, Ibis, 1892, p. 219 Gambia. 

 Crithagra butyracea (nee Linn.) Eeichen. J. f. O. 1875, p. 42 Abokobi. 

 Serinus butyraceus, Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1891, p. 390 Togo; 1897, p. 41 



Togo ; Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1899, p. 414 Gambaga. 

 Serinus icterus (nee Vieill.) Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 356 (1888) pt. 



W.Afr.; Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1896, p. 35 Camaroons ; Budgett, Ibis, 



1891, p. 490 Gambia; Alexander, Ibis, 1902, p. 297 Gambaga. 

 Serinus punetigula, Eeichen, Orn. Monatsb. 1898, p. 23 Camaroons. 



Adult male. Forehead, eyebrows, cheelis, chin, throat, under surface of 

 body, under tail-coverts and the rump pale canary yellow ; remainder of the 

 head and a band down the sides of the upper throat deep leaden grey ; some 

 dark centres to the feathers of the crown ; mantle yellowish olive partially 

 mottled with dark shaft-stripes to the feathers ; upper tail-coverts and tail 

 blackish brown, the former broadly edged with bright yellow and the feathers 

 of the latter narrowly so with yellowish buff fading into white at the ends. 

 Wing blackish brown, the feathers with olive tinted yellow edges, broadest 

 and palest at the ends of the median and greater coverts ; under surface of 

 wing dusky, fading into white on the inner edges of the quills and the coverts, 

 the latter tinted with yellow, especially towards the bend of the wing. Iris 

 brown ; bill horny brown ; tarsi and feet dusky. Total length 4-2 inches, 

 wing 2-55, tail 1-8, tarsus 0-6. 5" , 1- 1- 1- Gambaga (Alexander). 



