BRITISH BIRDS. Jl 



GENUS XXXVII. SERINUS, Kooh (1816). 

 Bill short, stout, conical, upper mandible very slightly 

 longer than lower. Wings with ist quill minute, 3rd 

 longest. Tarsus moderate ; claws small. 



86. Serinus hortulanus, Koch. SERIN. 



Hab. Southern half of Europe, north to the Rhine ; 

 also N. Africa and Asia Minor. Casually to British Isles. 



Male : above greenish-olive streaked with dark brown, 

 except rump, forehead and a streak above eye which are 

 yellow ; tail and primaries dark brown, with yellow 

 margins ; secondaries and greater coverts edged with 

 buffish-white ; throat and breast yellow ; centre of belly 

 white ; sides broadly striped with dark brown ; bill dark 

 brown ; tarsi light brown. Length 4*50. Female : yellow 

 tints very much duller. 



A rare straggler on migration ; seven or eight have been 

 taken in Sussex ; has also occurred in Somerset, Norfolk, 

 near London, and once in Ireland (1893). 



GENUS XXXVIII. LIGURINUS, Kooh (1816). 

 Bill short, stout, conical, tip of upper mandible com- 

 pressed and very indistinctly notched. Wings fairly long, 

 ist quill absolute. Tail veiy little forked. 



87. Ligurinus ehloris (Linn.)- GREENFINCH. 



Hab. Europe (except Spanish Peninsula), north to 

 southern Scandinavia ; also Turkestan. 



Male : above each eye a yellow stripe ; lores blackish ; 

 forehead and rump greenish-yellow ; crown, nape and 

 mantle olive-green ; wing-quills greyish-brown, primaries 

 having outer webs chiefly yellow ; basal halves of tail- 

 feathers, except two central ones, yellow, terminal portions 

 dusky brown with paler margins ; whole lower parts dull 



