Birds of the Gold Coast Colony ^c, 297 
This species ranges across Africa from the Niger to 
Abyssinia. 
The upper parts of our adult females are uniform fulvous 
brown, with only a few Sparrow-like markings on the feathers 
of the mantle; superciliary streak buffy white; upper mandible 
brown, lower one pale horn-coloured : the immature birds 
are like the adult female, but have the Sparrow-like mark- 
ings on the mantle heavier; wing-coverts and secondaries 
tipped with white ; no yellow spot on throat ; under parts 
paler ; inner webs of quills below pale rufous ; legs and feet 
slate-coloured. In fully adult males the bill is black. 
32. Passer diffusus Smith. 
Passer diffusus Sharpe, Cat. B. xii. p. 336 ; Reichen. 
J. f. 0. 1897, p. 41 (Togoland). 
Passer simplex Fraser, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 52 (Gold Coast) ; 
Shelley & Buckley, Ibis, 1872, pp. 282, 290 (Gold Coast) ; 
Reichen. & Liihd. J. f. O. 1873, p. 216 (Accra). 
Passer diffusus t Merry i Reichen. Orn. Monatsb. 1899, 
p. 190 (Manga) ; Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1900, p. 45. 
Ad. cJ c^ c^ c^ ^, ad. $ ? , Gomieri, May 4, 1901. 
Not met with at Gambaga nor in the west of the Hinter- 
land. From Gomieri, near Salaga, down to Accra, this 
Sparrow is common. 
33. Serinus icterus (Bonn, et Vieill.). 
Serinus icterus Sharpe, Cat. B. xii. p. 356 (1888) ; 
Shelley, B. Afr. i. no. 285 (1896). 
Serinus butyraceus Hartert, Nov. Zool. vi. p. 414 (Gam- 
baga) . 
Crithagra chrysopyyia Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 482 (Fantee) ; 
Shelley & Buckley, Ibis, 1872, p. 290 (Gold Coast). 
Crithagra chrysopogon Gordon, Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 9 
(Gold Coast). 
Common at Gambaga and elsewhere. 
34. Vidua principalis (Linn.). 
Vidua serena Hart. Nov. Zool. vi. p. 413 (Gambaga). 
Vidua principalis Sharpe, Cat. B. xiii. p. 203. 
Pong. 
