Birds from Southern Abyssinia. 579 



Amblyospiza albifrons aethiopica Neumann, J. £. O. 1905, 

 p. 342. 



Two adult males of Heuglin's Grosbeak-Weaver were 

 obtained in Kullo on the 16tli of June and in Baku on the 19th 

 of July respectively. These are no doubt typical examples 

 of A. a. aihiopica Neumann, and do not appear to differ in 

 any Avay from the specimens collected on the lower slopes of 

 lluweuzori and in Uganda. 



Family Fringillid^. 



G9. SpINUS CITKINELLOIDES. 



Chrysomitris citrinelloides (Riipp.) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 

 1900, p. 134 ; id. & Reid, Ibis, 1901, p. 624. 



Spinas citrinelloides citrinelloides Neumann, J. f. O. 1905, 

 p. 354. 



A. fine series of the Abyssinian Citril Finch was procured 

 in the neighbourhood of Addis Abbaba, also in Jimma, 

 Kaffa, Kullo and Gofa. 



The young male in the first autumn-plumage has the 

 dark mask on the face greyish-black (not deep black as in 

 the adult), the breast is washed with olive, and both the back 

 and breast are more heavily streaked with blackish, as in the 

 female. 



Professor Neumann has recognised no fewer that four 

 forms of S. citrinelloides as occurring between Abyssinia and 

 Lake Nyasa, viz : — 



1. Spinus citrinelloides citrinelloides R'up^. From Shoa 



eastwards to Harrar and s.outhwards to Lake 

 Ganjule. 



2. S. c. kikuyensis Neumann. From Lake Naivasha to 



Kikuyu and Kenia. 



3. >S^. c. frontalis Reichenow. Lake Kivu to Victoria 



Nyanza and the Equatorial Province. 



4. S. c. hypostictus Reichenow. Kilimanjaro to Lake 



Nyasa. 



I agree with Professor Neumann that when fully adult 

 males are compared, the Abyssinian bird may be readily 

 recognized from those found in British East Africa and 



