172 FRINGILLID^ SERINUS 



bents, and was thickly lined with the cottony seeds of a bush that 

 grew not far off. The eggs are of a faint blue-green ground colour, 

 sparsely zoned and marked at the large end with small spots of 

 dark and light reddish-brown. They measure O70 x 0-52. 





91. Serinus imberbis. Von der Deckens Seed-eater. 



Crithagra imberbis, Cab. Journ. /. Orn. 1868, p. 412. 



Crithagra chloropsis (nee. Bp.) Cab. in Von der Deckeris Iteis. iii. 

 p. 30, pi. ix (1869) ; Gurney, in Anderssorfs B. Damara Land, p. 183 

 (1872) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 486 (1884). 



Serinus imberbis, Sharpc, Cat. B. M. xii, p. 355 (1888) ; Shelley, 

 B. Afr. i, p. 21 (1896). 



Description. Adult male. Above, greenish-yellow, faintly 

 streaked with dusky on the back and mantle; rump unstreaked 

 greenish-yellow ; upper tail-coverts yellow ; lesser wing-coverts 

 like the back ; remaining coverts and quills blackish edged with 

 yellow ; tail-feathers dusky-brown edged with yellow ; crown 

 greenish-yellow with narrow dusky streaks ; eyebrow, eyelids, a 

 band from the eye across the front ear-coverts and cheeks yellow ; 

 posterior ear-coverts greenish-yellow ; below, golden-yellow, tinged 

 with green on the sides and flanks ; axillaries and under tail-coverts 

 bright yellow. 



Iris hazel ; bill dusky brown ; legs and feet dusky brown. 



Length 5-00; wing 2-80; tail 1-85; tarsus 0-65 ; culmen 0-45. 



Distribution. Great Namaqua, Damara Land and the Transvaal, 

 ranging through Nyasaland and German East Africa to Zanzibar 

 and Central Africa. 



92. Serinus rendalli. Kendall's Seed-eater. 



Crithagra rendalli, Tristram, Ibis, 1895, p. 129. 

 Serinus rendalli, Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 22 (1896). 



Description. Adult male. Forehead and lores yellow ; head 

 and neck yellow narrowly streaked with brown ; the scapulars, back 

 and rump brownish-black, the feathers with yellow margins; the 

 whole lower surface golden-yellow; wing and tail-feathers dusky 

 with yellow margins ; under wing-coverts pale yellowish. 



Iris hazel ; bill black ; legs and feet dusky. 



Adult female. Above dusky, the feathers margined with white; 



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