198 SERINUS HARTLAUBl. 



The Senegal Yellow-fronted Canary ranges over "West 

 Africa genei'allj between tlie Senegal and Quanza rivers. 



This species has been very generally confounded with its 

 near ally the common Yellow-fronted Canary, which replaces it 

 in South and Bast Africa. It is disting^uished from that bird 

 by the grey colouring of the crown in adult males, the narrower 

 dark stripes on the mantle, and the tail having little or no 

 white ends to the feathers. 



Swainson received the type of his Grithngra clirysopyga from 

 Senegal, but from the description and illustration of that bird 

 I am led to conclude that the specimen was a South African 

 one, so I reject that name for the present species and in so 

 doing set aside Gi'ithagra chrysopogon, Gordon, as it was entered 

 without a description, and was used instead of G. chrysopyga, 

 either in error or as a more classical rendering of the same. 

 This brings me to Grifhagra harthiubi, Bolle. Dr. Carl BoUe 

 has pointed out the characters of this species and how it differs 

 from the description and figure of Giithagra chrysopya, Swains., 

 and his article on this subject (J. f. 0. 1 858, pp. 353-359) is 

 worth reading. 



Marche and De Compiegne met with the species at 

 Bathurst. Here, according to Dr. Rendall, the natives keep 

 many of them in cages and speak of them as Canaries. 

 Verreaux procured specimens from Casaraanse, and at Bissao 

 they are so abundant, we are told by Mr. Chelmicki, that he 

 met with flocks of thousands along the rampart walls, yet Mr. 

 Biittikofer does not record the species from Liberia. In the 

 British Museum there are specimens from Ashantee and 

 Elmina. While I was on the Gold Coast with Mr. T. E. 

 Buckley, in February and March, 1872, we found the species 

 abundant at Cape Coast and Accra, usually in large flocks. 

 Ussher procured specimens near the mouth of the Volta river. 

 Inland at Gambaga and Genieri it has been met with by 



