SEKINUS REICHENOWI. 219 



Serinus reichenowi. 



Serinus reichenowi, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. 1888, p. 272 Cialcdaka; 

 Reichen. J. f. O. 1891, p. 159 Mpapwa, Nakvasha; Shelley, B. 

 Afr. I. No. 301 (1896); Jackson, Ibis, 1899, p. 622, Machako's, 

 Elgeyu, Guara-Molo B. ; Hartert in Ansorge's Under Afr. Sun, 

 p. 347 (1899) Kihuyti; Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 136, id. and Eeid, Ibis, 

 1901, p. 626 S. Abyssinia. 



Poliospiza reichenowi, Reichen. Vog. D. O. Afr. p. 196 (1894) Mpapwa. 



Crithagra atrigularis (nee Smith) Fisch. Zeitschr. 1884, p. 322 Nakvasha. 



Crithagra angolensis (nee Gm.) Fisch. J. f. 0. 1885, p. 136 Nakoasha. 



Serinus fagani, Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. vi. p. 7 (1896) Machako's ; Hinde, 

 Ibis, 1898, p. 579 Machako's. 



Adult. Upper parts dark brown with paler sides to the feathers, and a 

 lai'ge patch of canary yellow on the rump ; the moderately broad pale edges 

 to the wing-feathers fade into buffy white on the inner secondaries and the 

 ends of the greater and median coverts ; under wing-coverts white slightly 

 mottled with brown and tinted with yellow at the bend of the wing ; tail 

 dark brown, with narrow 'pale edges to the feathers, very slightly tinted 

 with yellow. A white forehead extending into a broad similarly coloured 

 eyebrow ; a band through the eye, cheeks and ear-coverts dark brown ; 

 some white beneath the eye, between the cheeks and ear-coverts, and 

 extending over the sides of the upper neck. Under parts white, lower 

 throat with a partial collar formed of dark brown spots, and the sides of 

 the body strongly streaked with dark brown ; a faint tinge of yellow on the 

 centre of the lower chest. "Iris brown; bill and legs dusky black." 

 Total length 4 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 2-7, tail 1-9, tarsus 5. <? , ? , 

 11. 2. 1. Kora (A. E. Pease). 



Young. Differ in being more streaked on the chest. 



Eeichenow's Canary ranges from Ugogo into Shoa. 



The most southern known range for this species is Mpapwa 

 in Ugogo, where Emiu procured a pair, June 28, 1890. In 

 British East Africa, at Machako's on August 17, 1896, Dr. 

 S. L. Hinde shot a female, the type of S. fagani, Sharpe, and 

 remarks : " Very common on the dried-up gi'ass-plains, either 

 in pairs or flocks. Its movements and habits when on the 

 ground reminded me of our own Siskin." Dr. Bowdler Sharpe 

 writes (Ibis, 1899, p. 623) : " There can be no doubt that ray 

 Serinus fagani is the same as S. reichenowi, of which we have 



