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Captain "W. Gifford and Captain Boyd Alexander, and in Togo- 

 land by Dr. Biittner. From Abeokuta there is a specimen 

 which was sent to the British Museum in spirits, which has 

 had the effect of turning all the yellow parts white, but has not 

 much altered the other colours. Mr. Hartert tells us that the 

 species is known at Lagos as the African Canary, and when he 

 was in the Niger district at Loko in July he was struck with 

 the beauty of its song. In Camaroons Mi'. Zenker procured 

 the type of 8. pundigula, Reichen., on the grass-lands of the 

 Sanaga district. This specimen, which I have examined, is an 

 immature bird of the present species with a few blackish spots 

 on the middle throat. I do not find the species recorded from 

 either Gaboon or Angola, but specimens have been collected by 

 Lucan and Petit on the Loango Coast, and by Bohndorfi" up 

 the Congo river at Manyanga and Kasongo. 



Serinus flaviventris. 



Crithagra flaviventris, Swains. Zool. Journ. iii. p. 348 (1828) S. Aft: 

 Serinus flaviventris, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 353 (1888) Cape Col. ; 



Kuschel, J. f. 0. 1895, p. 342 egg ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 283 (1896) ; 



Nehrkom, Kat. Eiers. p. 110 (1899) egg; Stark, Faun. S. Afr. B. i. 



p. 170 (1900). 

 ?Fringilla butyracea, Linn. S. N. i. p. 321 (1766) Madeira. 

 Crithagra strigilata. Swains. Ann. in Menag. p. 317 (1837, 2 ) S. Afr. 

 Crithagra flava, Swains, t. c. p. 318 (1837, S ) -S. Afr. 



Adult male. Upper parts yellowish green with dusky shaft-stripes to the 

 feathers of the crown and mantle, and a wash of yellow on the lower back ; 

 forehead and a broad complete eyebrow bright yellow. Wiugs and tail 

 brownish black with yellowish green edges to the feathers ; lesser coverts 

 like the mantle ; under coverts and inner edges of the quills brownish white, 

 the former strongly washed with yellow. Sides of the head below the eye- 

 brow and a band from the lores down the side of the upper throat greenish, 

 with the greater portion of the cheeks canary yellow like the chin, throat, 

 breast, thighs and under tail-coverts. " Iris brown ; upper mandible dusky ; 

 lower one light brown; tarsi and feet dark brown" (Stark). Total length 

 5*3 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 2'8, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-7. Cape Col. (Smith). 



