ANOMALOSPIZA IMBERBIS 109 
Adult male. General plumage canary yellow. Forehead and front of 
crown uniform yellow; remainder of the crown, back of neck, back, 
scapulars, upper tail-coverts and the tail brownish black, with broad yellow 
edges to the feathers. Wings brownish black, with moderately broad dull 
yellow edges to all the feathers, excepting the primary coverts ; inner edges 
of the quills and the under-coverts whitey brown, washed with yellow along 
the bend of the wing. Sides of the head and neck and the under parts 
yellow; flanks streaked with narrow blackish shaft-stripes; thighs slightly 
shaded with brown. Iris brown; bill horny brown, paler beneath ; tarsi 
and feet pale brown. Total length 4:9 inches, culmen 0:5, wing 2°75, 
tail 1:55, tarsus 0:65. ¢g,16.2.94. Barberton district (Rendall). 
Female. General plumage brown, with no bright yellow. Upper parts 
blackish brown, uniform on the forehead and front of the crown, but with 
a narrow yellowish white parting extending back from the culmen ; 
remainder of the upper parts similar in pattern to that of the adult male, 
but with the edges of the feathers pale brown instead of yellow, and the 
dark centres to the feathers much narrower on the head and neck than on 
the mantle; a broad yellowish buff eyebrow extends from the nostril to 
above the ear-coverts; front half of sides of head yellowish buff, shading 
into pale brown on the ear-coverts and back of cheeks, which are slightly 
streaked with darker brown; under parts whitey brown ; sides of neck and 
the crop with small lanceolate dark brown shaft-stripes ; flanks boldly 
streaked with dark brown. Bill paler than in the full plumaged male. 
Total length 4:7 inches, culmen 0:5, wing 2°7, tail 1:55, tarsus 0-65. 
2? , 16. 2. 94, Barberton district (Rendall). 
The Canary-like Bishop-bird ranges from Sierra Leone and 
the Upper White Nile over Central and Eastern Africa to as far 
south as the Transvaal. 
Mr. Robin Kemp, during a visit to Sierra Leone in 1902, 
procured an adult male of this species at Bo, in September, 
and writes : “ The only specimen I have seen was caught with 
bird-lime by a native, at the edge of a ricefield. Iris dark 
brown ; upper mandible horn-colour ; lower mandible, feet and 
claws dusky flesh colour.” 
The species has been obtained by Emin in the Upper White 
Nile district at Fadjulli and Obbo; by Mr. Oscar Neumann in 
Usoga at Kwa Lubwa; by Bohm in the Uniamwesi country 
