222 SERINUS CROCOPYGIUS. 



In the Shoa country this species replaces, at least to some 

 extent, 8. xaufJwjJijgms, from which it may be most readily 

 distinguished by the spot of yellow on the lower throat. All 

 that I know regarding it, is that Antinori procured a specimen 

 on the Aigabar Pass and Dr. Ragazzi's collection contained two 

 others from Ambokarra and Malca-ghebdu, and that the yellow 

 spot on the throat is alike in them all. 



Serinus crocopygius. 



Poliospiza crocopygia, Sharpe, Ibis, 1871, p. 101 Damara. 



Serinus crocopygius, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 360, pi. 8 (1888) 



Bengucla, Damara, Great Namaqiia ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 290 



(1896) ; Stark, Faun. S. Afr. B. i. p. 176 (1900). 

 Buserinus albigularis, Hartl., P.Z.S. 1865, p. 95 Bcngula. 



Adult. Upper parts ashy brown streaked with dark brown on the crown 

 and mantle ; lower back bright canary yellow ; wings and tail dark brown, 

 the leathers edged with brownish white ; sides of forehead and a bi-oad 

 complete eyebrow white, separated from a white patch below the eye by 

 a dusky band from the nostril which branches off across the white cheeks 

 to the side of the throat ; chin and throat pure white with a few dusky 

 spots towards the chin ; ear-coverts, sides of neck, crop, chest and sides 

 of body ashy brown, sharply contrasting with the white throat and fading 

 away towards the centre of the body into white like the abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts ; thighs white slightly mottled with brown. Total length 5'4: 

 inches, culmen 055, wing 3-3 and 3"1, tail 2-25 and 2-1, tarsus 0'75. 

 (J , S , Damara (Andersson). 



The Damara White-throated Canary ranges from Benguela 

 into Great Namaqualand. 



The specimen obtained by Mr. Monteiro in the province 

 of Benguela and referred to Buserinus albigularis by Hartlaub 

 (P. Z. S. 1865, p. 95), belongs to this species, and is now in 

 the British Museum. To the south of the Cunene river these 

 Canaries are apparently more abundant, for Andersson pro- 

 cured four specimens in Damara, including the type from 

 Otjimbinque, June 9, 1864, and one in Great Namaqua, all 

 of which are in the British Museum. However, lie writes : 



