116 ALPINE SERIN EINCH. 



The above description is thought by De Selys-Long- 

 champs to apply only to the young in the winter 

 plumage. In the "Revue de Zoologie" for 1847, page 

 120, this distinguished naturalist has given the following 

 more extended diagnosis of the adult bird: — Top of 

 the head, auditory region, and throat, of a dull black, 

 with the forehead of a bright and lively red; nape, 

 upper parts of the body, and upper tail coverts, grey; 

 the centre of the feathers blackish, having the borders 

 of a saffron yellow or grey white; the parts below dirty 

 white, with longitudinal blackish spots on the flanks 

 and under tail coverts, the whole irregularly washed 

 with saffron yellow; wings blackish, the lesser coverts 

 broadly bordered with saffron yellow; primaries slightly 

 bordered with this colour, and the secondaries with 

 grey white; tail blackish, with the end lightly bordered 

 with grey white; beak brown; feet black. 



Figured by Pallas, Zoog., 1811-31, vol. 2, p. 28. 



I have not a specimen or good drawing of this bird, 

 which I therefore am sorry to say cannot be figured. 



