PYCNONOTIDJE. 121 



Measurements of a male and a female : — 



[Mr. Andersson gives the above particulars from specimens 

 obtained at the Knysna ; but as his last collection contained one 

 example from Lake Ngami, I, on that account, include the 

 species in the present volume. — Ed.] 



154. Criniger flaviventris (Smith). Yellow-bellied Criniger. 

 Trkliopliorusjlaviventris, Smith's Zool. of S. Africa, pi, 59. 

 Crini<jer flaviventris, Finsch, in Journ. fiir Orn. 1809, p. 22. 



„ „ Layard's Cat. No. 259. 



„ „ Sharpe's Cat. No. 196. 



[Mr. Sharpe possesses two specimens of this bird, which were 

 obtained by Mr. Andersson at Ovaqueuyama. — Ed.] 



155. Crateropus bicolor, Jard. Southern Black-and-White 

 Babbler. 



Cratervjms hicohr, Jardine, in Edinbm-gh Journal, pi. 3. 



„ „ Strickland & Sclater, Birds Damar., Conti*. Orn. 



1852, p. 145. 

 ,, „ Andersson, in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 7. 



„ „ Layard's Cat. No. 252. 



,, ,, Chapman's Travels in S. Afr., App. p, 396. 



„ „ Shai-pe's Cat. No. 216. 



This species is common throughout Damara and Great 

 Namaqua Land, and is also found in the Lake-regions ; 

 it always occurs in flocks of many individuals, and creeps 

 and glides through the mazes of tangled wood and dense 

 thickets with amazing ease and celerity. When alarmed, 



