96 BIRDS OF DAMARA LAND. 



The iris is bright yellow ; legs liver-brown ; upper 

 mandible and tip of lower bluish black, remainder of 

 lower mandible bluish brown. 



Measurements of a male and a female : — 



[Professor Walilbcrg, loc. cit., gives no other locahty for tliis 

 bird than the river Swakop. This species, I believe, has not yet 

 been figured. The following is a copy of Wahlberg's description 

 of it : — " Superne cinereo-ohvacea, auchenio eapitequc superne 

 et in lateribus cinereis, vertice olivaceo tineto, stria snpraoculari 

 vix ulla. Subtus alba, crisso dilute sulphureo. Cauda rotun- 

 data (reetr. ext. 9 mm. intermedia brevior) fusca, olivaceo 

 tincta. Tectrices alarum inferiores albse, reraiges fuscae, extus 

 olivaceo limbatae; I'' hrevis ( = ^ 2''*) ; 2 = 7j 3, 4, et 5 tiequales, 

 longissimse . . . Femina similis mari sed major et magis olivaceo 

 tincta." — En.] 



119. Dryodromas flavida (Strick.). Black-breasted Dryodromc. 



Dryjiuccajlavida, Strickland & Sclater, Birds Damar., Contr. Orn. 



1852, p. 148 (female). 

 Eremomela jlavida, Gurnev, Birds Damar., Proc. Zool. Soc. 18G4, 



p. 2. 

 Dryodromas flavida, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 28G2. 

 Dryodromas flavidm, Finseli & Plartlaub's Viigcl G.<'t-Afrika's,p.240. 

 Dryodromas flavida, Sharpe's Cat. No. 320. 



It is only in the neighbourhood of the Okavango that 

 I have found this pretty little species at all numerous, 

 and 1 never saw it either in Damara or in Great Namaqua 

 Land. I generally found it in small flocks, probably 



