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it resorts in small flocks in the morning and evening to quench its 

 thirst. Its food consists of seeds and berries." 



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96. Serinus leucopterus. White-winged, Seed-eater. 



Crithagra leucoptera, Sharpe, Ann. $ Mag. Nat. Hist, viii, p. 235 (1871). 

 Serinus leucopterus, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii, p. 361, pi. 9 (1888) ; Shelley, 

 B. Afr. i, p. 22 (1896). 



Description (From Cat. Mus. Brit}. Adult. General colour 

 above uniform brown with a slight olive-yellow tinge, the rump 

 uniform with the back ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median 

 and greater coverts dark brown, externally edged with the same 

 colour as the back and tipped with white, forming a double wing- 

 bar; bastard wing, primary coverts, and quills dark brown edged 

 with olive ; the inner secondaries whitey-brown at the ends of the 

 inner web ; upper tail-coverts like the back with small whitish tips ; 

 tail-feathers dark brown edged with dull olive-yellow ; crown of 

 head like the back, but broadly centred with dull blackish-brown ; 

 the forehead tinged with yellow, lores dull ashy; feathers round 

 eye, ear-coverts and cheeks dusky brown, with a pale streak across 

 the lower ear-coverts ; throat white mottled with blackish spots on 

 the chin and upper throat ; remainder of under surface pale ashy- 

 brown, lighter than the back and tinged with olive-yellow, with 

 which some of the feathers are edged ; sides of body and flanks like 

 the breast ; thighs dark brown ; vent and under tail-coverts whitish, 

 slightly tinged with yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries like 

 the breast ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge. 



Length 6'00 ; wing 2-45 ; tail 2-25 ; tarsus 0'75 ; culmen 0-55. 



Distribution. The type specimen, described above, was for- 

 warded from South Africa by Mr. E. L. Layard. 



Habits. Unknown. 



97. Serinus scotops. Sundevatt's Seed-eater. 



Crithagra scotops, Sundev. (Efv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stockh. (1850), 

 p. 98 ; Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 218 (1867) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. 

 Afr. pp. 487, 850 (1884). 



Serinus scotops, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii, p. 362 (1888) ; Shelley, B. 

 Afr. i, p. 22 (1896). 



Description. Adult male. Above, greenish-yellow streaked with 

 black, the rump brighter and unstreaked ; upper tail-coverts 

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