178 FRINGILLIDJE SERINUS 



greenish-yellow streaked with dusky ; lesser wing-coverts yellowish- 

 green ; remaining coverts and quills dusky brown edged and tipped 

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

 greenish-yellow narrowly streaked with black ; forehead and lores 

 blackish ; eyebrow golden-yellow ; ear-coverts and cheeks greenish- 

 yellow ; below, chin black ; rest of under surface golden-yellow ; 

 the lower throat and thighs tinged with greenish, the sides and 

 flanks streaked with dusky ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 yellow ; under surface of quills dusky. 



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



Length 5-00 ; wing 2-55 ; tail 1-95 ; tarsus 0-65 ; culmen 0-45. 



Adult female. Like the male, but the lores, feathers round the 

 eye and chin are grey; the lower throat and breast greenish, 

 streaked, like the sides and flanks, with dusky ; rest of under surface 

 yellow. 



Distribution. Cape Colony to the east of George, Natal, 

 Zululand and the Transvaal ; extending northward as far as 

 Nyasaland, where it has been obtained by Mr. Whyte at Zomba. 



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<\fo | 98. Serinus angolensis. Black-throated Seed-eater. 



Fringilla angolensis, Om. Syst. Nat. i, p. 918 (1788) ; Layards B. 8. 

 Africa, p. 203 (1867). 



Linaria atrigularis, Smith, Rep. Exp. Centr. Afr. p. 49 (1836). 



Crithagra angolensis, Bp. Consp. i, p. 520 (1850) ; Gurney, in Anders- 

 son's B. Damara Land, p. 182 (1872) ; Sharpe, ed. Layards 

 B. S. Afr. pp. 484, 850 (1884). 



Serinus angolensis, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii, p. 367 (1888) ; Shelley, 

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



Description. Adult male. Above, pale brown streaked with 

 dusky, the feathers of mantle with greyish edges ; rump bright 

 yellow ; upper tail-coverts dark brown with broad margins of pale 

 brown edged and tipped with white; wing-coverts like the back, 

 the greater edged with whitish towards their ends ; quills dusky 

 edged with yellow ; tail-feathers dark brown tipped with white, 

 which increases towards the outermost, which is one-third white ; 

 crown like the back ; a narrow eyebrow white ; lores grey ; ear- 

 coverts brown; cheeks white, crossed by a dark streak; chin 

 white ; throat black ; rest of lower surface dull white, tinged with 

 grey and narrowly streaked with black on the breast, sides and 

 flanks ; axillaries yellowish ; under wing-coverts grey. 



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