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Kikiiyu country, also on Mount Elgon. Besides these, Lord 

 Delamere lias procured specimens at Nairobe, Baroma on the 

 Kikuyu escarpment, and at the Nayuki river, which specimens 

 are now in the British Museum. 



Serinus striolatus. 



Pyrrhula striolata, Eiipp. N. Wirb. Vog. p. 99, pi. 37, fig. 1 (1835) 

 Abyssinia. 



Serinus striolatus, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 363 (1888) Kilimanjaro, 

 Abyssinia; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. 1888, p. 271 Shoa ; Shelley, 

 P. Z. S. 1889, p. 367 Kilimanjaro; Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 258 

 Kikuyu, Mt. Elgon; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 291 (1896); Grant, 

 Ibis, 1900, p. 135 S. Abyssinia; Neum. J. f. O. 1900, p. 289 

 Kilimanjaro. 



Grithagra striolata, Pisch. J. f. O. 1885, p. 136 ArusJia. 



Poliospiza striolata, Reichen. Vog. D. 0. Afr. p. 196 (1891) Ariisha, 

 Kilimanjaro. 



Grithagra striolata affinis, Eichraond, Auk. xiv. p. 157 (1897) Kilimanjaro. 



Serinus affinis, Jackson, Ibis, 1899, p. 620 Ravine, Nandi, Kikuyu; 

 Hinde, Ibis, 1900, p. 494 N'ljoiig. 



Adult. Above mottled brown, the broad centres to the feathers 

 inclining to black and the pale edges partially fade into buff down the 

 centre of the crown and on the hind neck. Wing : lesser-coverts like the 

 back ; median and greater-coverts as well as the inner secondaries with 

 fairly broad terminal edges of brownish white ; outer edges of the greater- 

 coverts, primary-coverts and the remainder of the quills have partial olive 

 yellow edges, the remaining portion of the wing being blackish brown, with 

 buff inner edges to the quills, and the axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 isabelliue buff with a slight yellow shade on the pinion. Tail blackish 

 brown with narrow olive yellow edges to the feathers. Sides of head dark 

 brown, surmounted by a broad eyebrow from the nostril of yellowish buff 

 and a less sharply defined band of the same colour extends from the gape to 

 the sides of the neck and defines a broad dark brown mustachial band 

 which borders the upper half of the throat. Under parts isabelline buff, 

 with the lower throat, sides of body and the under tail-coverts streaked with 

 brownish black centres to the feathers ; outside of thighs brown. " Iris 

 brown ; bill brown with the lower mandible dusky white ; tarsi and feet 

 brown " (.Jackson). Total length 6'2 and 50 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-9 

 and 2-6, tail 2-4, tarsus 0-75. (? , 2 , Senafe (Jesse and Blanford). 



The Streaky Brown-Canary ranges over Eastern Africa 

 between 3° S. lat. and 15° N". lat. 



