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lores and feathers round the eyes whitish ; below, pale yellow, with 

 a few narrow streaks of dusky ; under wing-coverts whitish. 



Iris hazel; bill, legs and feet dusky. 



Length 5'00 ; wing 2-75 ; tarsus 0-66. (Ibis, 1895, p. 130). 



Distribution. The two type specimens, described above, were 

 obtained by Dr. Percy Eendall, F.Z.S., at Barberton in the 

 Transvaal, on February 16, 1894. 



93. Serinus icterus. Eastern Yelloiv Seed-eater. 



Friiigilla ictera, Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii, p. 972 (1823). 

 Crithagra chrysopyga, Swains. B. W. Afr. ii, p. 206, pi. 17 (1837); 



Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 219 (1867) ; Gwrney, in Andersson's B. Damara 



Land, p. 182 (1872). 

 Serinus icterus, Bp. Consp. i, p. 523 (1850) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii, 



p. 356 (1888) ; Butler, Foreign Finches, p. 34, pi. (1894) ; Shelley, 



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

 Crithagra hartlaubi, Bolle, Jo urn. f. Orn. 1858, p. 355 : Holub von Pelz. 



Beitr. Orn. Sildafr. p. 134 (1882). 

 Crithagra ictera, Sharpe, ed. La-yard's B. S. Afr. pp. 485, 850 (1884). 



Description. Adult male. Above, greenish streaked with black 

 merging into unstreaked yellow on the rump ; upper tail-coverts 

 dusky edged with yellow ; least wing-coverts greenish-yellow ; 

 remaining coverts and quills blackish edged with yellow; tail- 

 feathers black edged with yellow and tipped with grey ; crown 

 like the back ; lores, feathers round eye and ear-coverts black ; 

 forehead, eyebrow and cheeks yellow ; a malar streak of black ; 

 below, yellow tinged with greenish on the sides and flanks ; axil- 

 laries and under wing-coverts ash-grey. 



Iris brown ; bill horn-coloured ; legs and feet dusky-brown. 



Length 4-40 ; wing 2-75 ; tail 1-75 ; tarsus 0-65 ; culmen 0-40. 



Adult female. Less bright than the male ; above browner ; the 

 chin with a white spot, 



Young. Like the female, but the upper parts are browner with 

 hardly a trace of yellow ; a streak of light brown through the eye ; 

 the breast is more or less spotted with dusky brown, more so in 

 young females. 



Distribution. Resident in Eastern Cape Colony, Natal, and the 

 Orange Free State, extending northward through the Transvaal, 

 Matabili and Mashonalands, and up the East Coast to Mombasa. 



