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Upper Shire district. Bohm records the species as plentiful 

 near Kakoma, in flocks with other Finches in the rice-fields, 

 or perched on boughs to sing. The type of the species was 

 discovered by the late Baron von der Decken at Zanzibar. 

 Fischer collected specimens there and in Ugeyeya, and Mr. 

 Oscar Neumann obtained the type of his S. sharpei in the 

 intervening country on Kilimanjaro. The latter naturalist met 

 with specimens he refers to S. imberhis at Kwa Lubwa in 

 Usogo, and I cannot see in his description of the type of 8. 

 sharpei any character for distinguishing it from the birds 

 collected by Dr. Ansorge in Unioro and Uganda, which agree 

 perfectly with siDccimens from Tete and Nyasaland. Emin has 

 obtained the species at Bukoba. 



Serinus sulphuratus. 



Loxia sulphurata, Linn. S. N. i. p. 305 (1766) Cape. 



Serinus sulphuratus, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 352 (1888) ; Eeichen. 

 J. f. O. 1891, p. 158 Ugogo; Blittik. Notes, Leyd. Mus. 1888, p. 240 

 Himipata; Eeichen. Yog. D. 0. Afr. p. 196 (1894) ; Butler, Foreign 

 Finches in Captivity, p. 29, pi. 6, fig. 2 (1894) ; Fleck, J. f. O. 1895, 

 p. 341 egg ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 282 (1896) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1897, 

 p. 514 Zulu ; Nehrkorn, Kat. Biers, p. 110 (1899) egg ; Jackson, Ibis, 

 1899, p. 620 Bavine, Naiwasha ; Starke, Faun. S. Afr. B. i. p. 169 

 (1900). 



Crithagra sulphuratus, Fisch. J. f. 0. 1885, p. 136 Naiwasha ; Eeichen. 

 J. f. O. 1887, p. 72 Salanda. 



Brimstone Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. p. 137 (1783). 



Adult. Above yellowish green streaked with brownish black centres on 

 the feathers of the crown and mantle. Tail and wings brownish black with 

 olive yellow edges to the feathers, broadest on the inner secondaries, greater 

 coverts, ends of the median coverts and the lesser coverts, which latter are 

 like the mantle ; under surface of quills with brownish buff inner edges ; 

 under coverts ashy, strongly washed with bright yellow. Sides of forehead, 

 a broad eyebrow and patches on the front and back of the cheeks canary 

 yellow, like the chin and upper throat ; remainder of the sides of the head 

 uniform olive green, like the back of the neck ; breast and under tail-coverts 

 bright yellow like the upper throat, but shading into olive yellow on the 



