NO. 1411. BIHDS FROM MOUNT KILIMANJARO— OBERHOLSER. 935 



Family FRINGILLID.T^]. 



EMBERIZA FLAVIVENTRIS (Vieillot). 



Passeriiia flaviventrisYiFALLOT, Encyc. Meih., Ill, lS2o, ]>. 9L'9 (Cape of Good 

 Hope, South Africa). 



One immature male, with wino^-quills in process of molt, from the 

 plains east of Mount Kilimanjaro, October 5, 18S8. 



CRITHAGRA ALBIFRONS Sharpe. 



Crithagra alhifrons Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 118 (Kikuyu, British East Africa). 

 Crithagra kiiimensis Richmond, Auk, XIV, 1897, \>. 155 (Mount Kihmanjaro, 

 East Africa). 



Two specimens, from Mount Kilimanjaro, at (),()( )0 and 7,000 feet, 

 respectivel3\ One taken April 16, 1888, is evidently immature and is 

 much more rufescent or ochraceous — less grayish — both above and 

 below than the other, but is not otherwise importantly different. 

 These examples formed the basis of Doctor Richmond's CrltJicuira 

 I'lllmensls, which seems now^ to be identical with ( 'rltlKiyra dlhlfrom 

 of Sharpe. 



There appears to be no good reason for not recognizino- the genus 

 Crithagra as different from Serhius, since the large, turgid l)ill and 

 i-elativeh^ short wings of the former group are alone sufficient to 

 maintain its distinctness. 



CRITHAGRA STRIOLATA AFFINIS Richmond. 



Crithagra striokda affinis Richmond, Auk, XIV, 1S97, p. 15() (Mount Kihnianjaro, 

 East Africa). 



Five specimens, from Mount Kilimanjaro, at 5,000, 6,000. and 7,000 

 feet. These, by reason of their yellowish chins, dark colors, and 

 small size, seem to indicate that the southern examples of Crithagra 

 f<tr!olata are subspeciffcally separable from those of Aljyssinia. An 

 immature bird taken at Maranu, 5,000 feet, on Mount Kilimanjaro, 

 April 17, 1888, is rather paler, more ochraceous above than the adults. 



SERINUS FLAVIVERTEX (Blanford). 



Crithagra flavirertex Blanford, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th .ser., VI, 1869, 

 p. 330 (Adigrat, Tigre, Abyssinia). 



Two specimens, from Mount Kilimanjaro, 10,000 feet, December 15, 

 1889. One of these is an immature bird .still partially' in juvenal 

 plumage, and differs from the adult in being duller and more greenish 

 on the upper parts, the pileum yellowish olive green streaked with 

 dark brown, on the hind neck some brown and buffy streaked feathers 

 of the earlier plumage persisting; yellow edgings of wings and tail 

 paler, those of the greater and median wing-coverts particularly so; 



