SERINUS SOCOTRANUS. 207 



Serinus donaldsoni. 



Serinus donaldsoni, Sharpe, Bull. B. 0. C. iv. p. 41 (1895) ; id. P. Z. S. 

 1895, p. 470, pi. 27, fig. 2 Somali; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 288 



(1896). 



Male. Similar in size and colouring to S. sulpliuratus, but may be readily 

 distinguished by the rump being strongly washed with bright yellow and the 

 throat, breast and under tail-coverts clear bright yellow with no olive shade • 

 it is further characterised in having the feathers of the abdomen mostly 

 white and some broad dusky olive stripes on the flanks. " Iris dark brown ; 

 bill flesh colour. Total length 6 1 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 3-25, tail 2-7, 

 tarsus 0-65. S , 10. 9. 91. Darde E. (Donaldson Smith). 



Donaldson's Canary iubabits Somaliland. 



This species was discovered by Dr. Donaldson Smith in 

 Somaliland, and is known to me by the type which was shot 

 at the Darde river, September 10, 189rt, and another male 

 killed the same day at Kalolo, both of which are ia the 

 British Museum. 



Serimis socotranus. 



Ehynchostruthus socotranus, Sclater and Hartl. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 171, 

 pi. 17 Socotra Is. ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 282 (1888) ; Shelley, 

 B. Afr. I. No. 251 (1896). 



Ehynchostruthus riebecki, Hartl. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 954, pi. 72 Socotra Is. 



Adult male. Head, upper neck and throat black with the ear-coverts 

 white ; back and scapulars uniform brown shaded with ashy grey towards 

 the lower back and upper tail-coverts. Wing blackish brown and bright 

 yellow ; the lesser wing-coverts washed at the edges with yellow, the greater 

 coverts and the secondaries with very broad pale yellow outer edges, forming 

 two thick oblique bars on the closed wing ; the inner greater coverts and 

 inner secondaries with broad ashy grey edges ; under surface of quills dusky 

 brown with obsolete pale inner margins, and the under wing-coverts whitish 

 ash partially washed with pale yellow. The black throat ends in a curve 

 surrounded by the uniform pale ashy brown of the sides of the neck, crop 

 and breast, which latter fades into white on the lower abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts. Tail blackish brown with bright yellow outer edges to the 

 feathers, broadest at the base but reaching nearly to their ends. " Iris 

 brown ; bill black ; tarsi and feet flesh colour." Total length 6 inches, 



