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the Gazelle river. At the Blue Nile he found a nest which 

 was cup-shaped and deep inside, it was constructed of a kind 

 of hemp mixed with hairs and seed-down and lined with 

 feathers, hair and down. It was placed about five feet from 

 the ground and contained three eggs, which were pale greenish 

 grey spotted at the thick end with brownish red and dusky 

 brown; they measured 0"6 x 0'46. In this district, near 

 Senaar, it frequents the native villages and the surrounding 

 pasture-land and may be seen in flocks feeding on the ground, 

 or perched on bushes or rocks near water. He also observed 

 these Finches in Bogosland or Northern Abyssinia. 



Mr. Witherby met with the species at Shebesha about ninety 

 miles south of Khartoum, and in some acacias near the river 

 at Wad Mariun, within twelve miles of Khartoum. 



Serinus angolensis. 



Fringilla angolensis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 918, 1788 Angola. 



Serinus angolensis, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 367 (1888) Daviara, 

 Orange B., Makalaka ; Shelley B. Afr. I. No. 302 (1896) ; Marshall, 

 Ibis, 1896, p. 246; 1900, p. 239 Mashona ; Neum. J. f. O. 1900, 

 p. 287 Uganda; Stark, Faun. S. Afr. B. i. p. 178 (1900). 



Fringilla tobaca, Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 969 (1823) " Senegal." 



Linaria atrogularis. Smith, Eep. S. Afr. Exped. p. 49 (1836) Kurrichaine. 



Angola Finch, Lath. Gen. Zool. iii. p. 309 (1783). 



Adxdt. Forehead brownish white ; crown, back of neck, mantle and 

 lesser wing-coverts pale brown with blackish brown centres to the feathers ; 

 lower back bright sulphur yellow ; upper tail-coverts dark brown with very 

 broad white ends. Tail feathers dark brown with narrow pale edges to the 

 outer webs, which edges broaden out into white ends on the inner webs. 

 Wing : dark brown with pale edges to the feathers, broadest and of a slightly 

 paler brownish buff on the terminal portion of the median and greater 

 coverts and the inner secondaries, and faintly shaded with yellow on the 

 primaries ; wing-lining with the inner margins of the quills and the coverts 

 brownish buff, the latter and the asillaries slightly tinted with yellow. 

 Sides of head and the under parts generally brownish white washed with 

 dark brown in front of the eyes and on the ear-coverts ; throat irregularly, 

 but sometimes strongly, mottled with dark brown or black ; flanks streaked 



