220 SERINUS XANTHOPYGIUS. 



lately received a specimen from Mpapwa, presented by the 

 Berlin Museum." 



Mr. Jackson found the species at Machako's, also at 

 Elgeyu, in flocks and fairly plentiful, and writes : " ? ad. 

 Guasa Molo river, September, 1896. Shot for identification 

 as it flew off its nest. Nest very small, on branch of bush, 

 about six inches from ground. Egg (only one) like a Linnet's." 

 In the Kikuyu country the species has been procured by Dr. 

 Ausorge. In Shoa the types of the species, a male and two 

 females, were collected by Dr. Ragazzi at Cialalaka in 1885 ; 

 Lord Lovat shot a pair at Hado, and Mr. A. E. Pease found 

 the species very common at Kora. 



Serinus xanthopygius. 



Serinus xanthopygius, Eiipp. N. Wirb. Vog. p. 96, pi. 35, fig. 1 (1835) ; 



Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 365 (1888) Senafi ; Hartert, Kat. Vog. 



Mus. Senck. p. 57 (1891) Abyssinia; Shelley. B. Afr. I. No. 298 



(1896) ; Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 136 Gcrru. 

 Poliospiza zanthopygia, Hartl. Abhandl. nat. ver Brem. 1891, p. 26 



Usoiujo. 

 Carpodacus uropygialis, Licbt. Nomencl. Av. p. 48 (1846) Arabia. 



Adult. Much resembles S. ancjohnsis and S. reichenowi, from which it 

 differs in the upper parts being of a darker and more uniform brown ; the 

 upper tail-coverts and the tail entirely uniform brown ; and the chin and 

 throat uniform white. 



Forehead, crown, back of neck and mantle earthy brown, with rather 

 obscure dark centres to the feathers ; lower back bright sulphur yellow ; 

 upper tail-coverts, tail, and the wings almost uniform brown ; under surface 

 of wing with the inner margins of the quills and the coverts brownish buff. 

 Sides of the head and neck uniform brown with the front of the cheeks huffy 

 white, of the same colour as the chin and throat ; breast and under tail- 

 coverts white shaded with ashy brown on the crop and sides of the body. 

 " Iris brown ; bill and legs brownish " (Lord Lovat). Total length 4-4 

 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 2-6, tail 1-8, tarsus 0-55. <? , 10. 8. 68. Kokai 

 (Jesse). 



Ruppell's Yellow-rumped Canary inhabits Eastern Africa 

 between 7° S. lat. and 16° N. lat., and ranges into Arabia. 



