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follows : Forehead yellow, with a slight mixture of 

 olive-green ; rest of the head and nape olive-green ; 

 ear-coverts also olive-green ; a yellow streak ex- 

 tends from the back of the eye round the ear- 

 coverts to the throat ; back light olive-brown, with 

 dark streaks, formed by the centre of each feather 

 being darker ; rump and upper tail-coverts yellow ; 

 lesser wing-coverts light dull yellow, with a dusky 

 spot on the inner web of each feather; greater 

 coverts dusky, with yellowish tips, making a yellow 

 line across the closed wing ; quills dusky, with dirty 

 white edges to the tertials ; tail forked and dusky, 

 each feather edged with dirty white or yellow ; 

 throat yellow; breast yellow, with dark dusky 

 streaks ; flanks dull dirty white, with dusky streaks ; 

 belly and under tail- coverts dull dirty white ; 

 legs rather faded, but I should think yellowish 

 brown; the colour of the irides I could not tell, 

 as I did not see the bird in the flesh : the bird- 

 stuffer had put in black eyes. This is the descrip- 

 tion I made in my note-book of Mr. Byne's bird, 

 when it was shown to me by Mr. Haddon, in March, 

 1866. 



The following is the description of the Serin 

 Finch given by Mr. Newman in his edition of 

 Montagu's Dictionary : " Forehead round the eyes, 

 and a band above the eyes which extends almost 

 to the back of the head, greenish yellow, clouded 

 with grey ; from the gape to the sides of the neck 



