200 SERINUS MARSHALL!. 



Adult female. Very different. Yellow confined to a wash of that colour 

 on the edges of the feathers ; upper parts ashy brown with blackish shaft- 

 stripes ; rump and upper tail-coverts rather strongly washed with yellow 

 and the pale edges to wing and tail feathers tinted with that colour ; side of 

 forehead, a broad eyebrow and most of the cheeks buffy white ; remainder of 

 sides of head uniform ashy brown, under parts whitish, thickly streaked 

 with dark brown on the chest, sides of body and under tail-coverts, and 

 spotted with that colour on the throat. Total lengh 4-9 inches, culmen 0-4, 

 wing 2-7, tail 2, tarsus 0-75. 2 , 23. 1. 74. Stellendorf (Shelley). 



Swainson's Canary is apparently confined to Cape Colony. 

 This species is a local representative of the very nearly allied 

 wider ranging S. viarshalli. The " Kleine Seisje," as this bird 

 is called by the Dutch Colonists, is, Stark informs us, not such 

 a favourite cage-bird as the Cape Canary, but has by no means 

 a despicable song, many of its notes being exceedingly true and 

 sweet. He further remarks : " In the neighbourhood of 

 Saldanha Bay, where it is, together with the large S. albigu- 

 laris, abundant among the bushes that overgrow the sandhills 

 at the back of the beach, it breeds in September. A nest 

 found on the 30th of this month, with five fi'esh eggs, was 

 placed in the top of a low bush about fifteen inches off the 

 ground. It was slightly but neatly constructed of small twigs 

 and dry grass-bents, and was thickly lined with cotton seeds of 

 a bush that grew not far off. The eggs are of a faint bluish 

 green ground colour, sparsely zoned and marked at the large 

 end with small spots of dark and light reddish brown. They 

 measure 070 x 0-52." 



Serinus marshalli, sp. nov. 



Serinus imberbis (nee Cab.) Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 355 (1888 pt.) 

 Daniara, Gt. Namaqua, Transvaal; Stark, Faun. S. Afr. B. i. p. 172 

 (1900). 



Crithagra flaviventris (nee Swains.) Fleck, J. f. O. 1894, p. 410 Damara. 



Serinus flaviventris, Butler, Foreign Finches in Captivity, p. 31, pi. 7 

 (1894) ; Marshall, Ibis, 1900, p. 239 Mashona. 



