ART. 10 BIRDS FROM SOUTHWEST AFRICA FRIEDMANN" 5 



with black pupils, the rim around the eye like a circle of orange beads. 

 Mrs. Sordahl found the song to be similar to that of the western 

 meadowlark of North America {Sturnella neglecta). 

 The specimens are in worn plumage. 



Family TURDIDAE, Thrushes 



OENANTHE MONTICOLA MONTICOLA Vieillot 



Oenanthe monticola Vieillot, Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, vol. 21, 

 p. 434, 1818 (Namaqualand, ex Levaillant, pi. 184). 



A male and a female were obtained on Mount Brukkaros (at 

 5,000 feet) on July 22, 1931. The birds were seen hopping along 

 on the rocks together and were apparently a mated pair. Mrs. 

 Sordahl wrote in her notebook that " * * * these birds stay 

 around the mountain all year. They vary in color; the males 

 have a white bar of feathers on the shoulders of the wings. Some 

 males have white on under tail coverts and lower half of ventral 

 side, but some have white only around base of tail. Their call is 

 a chirrup, chwnip when hopping on the ground. When sitting 

 on posts or wires or flying they have a lovely musical song that 

 is long and warbling and includes a whole scale of notes." 



The male is in the somewhat gray-headed plumage with white 

 upper wing coverts, white rump and upper tail coverts, and white 

 abdomen, but with black (white-bordered) under tail coverts. 



CERCOMELA FAMILIARIS GALTONI (Strickland) 



Erythropygia galtoni Strickland, in Jardine's Contributions to Ornithology, 

 1852, p. 147 (Damaraland). 



A male was collected at Fish River, 6 miles from Berseba on 

 March 1, 1931. Mrs. Sordahl writes that this species travels in 

 large flocks, and she assumes that, as she never saw it before at a 

 waterhole, the species was probably passing through on migration 

 at the time the specimen was taken. 



Recently, Roberts ^ has described a race, damarensis, from Wind- 

 hoek, which is said to differ from galtoni in having the throat pale 

 brownish and only the abdomen and under tail coverts whitish 

 instead of the entire underparts yellowish white as in the latter form. 

 He states that the actual type locality of galtoni is Swakopmund, 

 which would make galtoni a lowland coastal bird and datnarensis 

 a form of the higher interior. On this basis the present specimen 

 might be expected to be of the latter race. Unfortunately the 

 specimen is in worn plumage and somewhat stained, but there is 



^Ann. Transvaal Mus., vol. 14, pt. 3, pp. 242-243, 1931. 



