216 SERINUS LEUCOPYGIUS. 



this species, which was brought to him alive by one of his 

 Datives at Pretoria and was kept in a cage for some time. J 



Serinus leucopygius. 



Crithagra leucopygia, Sundev. (Efv. K. Vet. Akad. Forh. Stockh. 1850, 

 p. 127 Senaar ; Pinsch in Heugl. Orn. N. O. Afr. Suppl. p. cxlv. 

 (1871). 



Serinus leucopygius, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 366 (1888) Gambia, 

 Redjaf, Senaar; Butler, Foreign Finches in Confinement, p. 38, 

 pi. 8, fig. 1 (1894) ; Kuschel, J. f. O. 1895, p. 312 egg ; Shelley, B. 

 Afr. I. No. 297 (1896) ; Nehrkoru, Kat. Eiers. p. 110 (1899) egg ; 

 Witherby, Ibis, 1901, p. 247 Kliartoim. 



? Fringilla musica, Vieill. N. D. xii. p. 210 (1817) Senegal. 



Serinus leucopygos, Bp. Consp. i. p. 523 (1850) " S. Asia." 



Adult. Upper parts ashy brown with the lower back pure white ; fore- 

 head, crown, back of neck and the mantle mottled with dark brown centres 

 to the feathers ; upper tail-coverts and the tail entirely uniform brown. 

 Wing with the pale edges to the feathers very narrow excepting on the inner 

 secondaries and ends of the greater and median coverts, where they incline to 

 white ; under surface with the inner margins of the quills and the coverts 

 ashy white. Sides of the head and neck nearly uniform ashy brown ; under 

 parts white, slightly washed or mottled with ashy brown towards the front 

 of the chest; flanks streaked with brown. "Iris hazel; bill horn colour; 

 tarsi and feet flesh-colour." Total length 4 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 2-6, 

 tail 1-5, tarsus 05. ^ , 13. 5. 0. White Nile (H. F. Witherby). 



The White-rumped Canary ranges from Senegambia into 

 Abyssinia, and up the White Nile to Redjaf in about 4° N. lat. 

 In West Africa the species is known to me from Senegambia 

 only, where it is apparently not uncommon. Dr. Rendall 

 procured specimens at Bathurst and kept them for some time 

 as cage-birds. There are several examples from the Gambia 

 in the British Museum, and Verreaux received it from 

 Casamanse. 



In the southern range of this Canary, Emin obtained a 

 specimen at Redjaf, which is now in the British Museum along 

 with one procured by Hedenborg at Senaar, Heuglin met 

 with the species in the Bongo country, which is watered by 



