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Wagga mountain, about a montli later, and these two speci- 

 mens are well figured in tlie Ibis. 



This finch is apparently nowhere common, for it has been 

 recorded by Mr. Lort Phillips only, who in 1898 wrote : " That 

 so brightly- coloured and conspicuous a bird as this new Finch 

 should have escaped being recorded for so long is indeed 

 remarkable. In 1895, at the foot of the Sheikh Pass, I 

 procured a specimen out of a small flock, but as it was badly 

 shot I gave up the attempt of skinning it and threw it away, 

 thinking that I should see plenty more, but I did not see 

 any during the whole time I was then in the country." 



Serinus burtoni. 



Strobilophaga burtoni, Gray, Ann. and Mag. N. H. (3) x. p. 444 (1862) 



Gamaroons. 

 Serinus burtoni, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 364. pi. 7 (1888) Gamaroons; 



Eeichen. J. f. O. 1890, p. 124 ; Sjostedt, Svensk. Vet. Ak. Handl. 



27, No. 1, p. 93 (1895) ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 295 (1896). 

 Crithagra burtoni, Shelley, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 126 Gamaroons. 



Adult. Head, neck and upper parts dark brown, slightly mottled with 

 paler edges to the feathers ; forehead white, or mottled with white ; some 

 of the median and greater coverts with white ends ; quills and tail-feathers 

 narrowly edged with olive yellow; under wing-coverts ashy brown, tinted 

 with rufous, and the axillaries washed with yellow ; chin and cheeks mottled 

 with dusky black, and a few whitish edges to the feathers ; chest, abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts buff, with broad dark brown shaft-stripes on the sides 

 of the body. Iris, bill and legs brown. Total length 6-4 inches, culmen 0-65, 

 wing 3-5, tail 2-8, tarsus 0-85. Type. 



Sexes very similar in plumage. 



Burton's Canary inhabits Gamaroons. 



The type was discovered by Burton in that country, and 

 probably came from the highlands of the interior, for the 

 only other specimens of this rare species yet recorded are 

 two males and a female procured by Sir Harry Johnston in 

 the mountains at a height of 9,000 feet, 



[May, 1902. 1* 



