156 BIRDS OF DAMAllA LAND. 



usually found in small flocks, and is a clamorous bird, 

 uttering harsh choking sounds, just as though its crop 

 were too full. 



The nests of this species, which I observed in On- 

 donga, were built on palm trees ; the eggs have a buffy 

 ground-colour, and are thickly sprinkled with spots, 

 some of which are reddish and others brown, giving the 

 entire eg^ more or less of a pinkish hue. 



The irides are dark brown, the bill, legs, and toes 

 dark horn-colour. 



STURNIDiE. 

 191. Cinnyricinclus Verreauxi (Bocage). Vcrreaux'a Glossy 



Starliag. 



Pholidavges leiicogaster, Guraey, Birds Damar., Proc. Zool. Soc. 18G4, 

 p. 3. 

 „ „ Andersson, ibid. p. 6. 



Jidda leucogaster (part.), Layard's Cat. No. 340. 

 Lamprotornis leucogaster, Chapman's Travels in S. Air., App. p. 404. 

 Pholidaiiges leucogaster (part.), Fiusch & Ilartlaub's Vcigel Ost- 



Afrika's, p. 376. 

 Plwlidauges Verreauxi, id. ibid. p. 8G7. 

 Ciimyricinclus Bocagei, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. C349. 

 Pholidauges Verreauxii, Shai-pe's Cat. No. 515. 



This species is common in Damara Land and to the 

 northward, but only as a migratory bird, arriving at the 

 approach of the rainy season, and gradually leaving as 

 the country dries up, though I have observed a few 

 individuals remaining long after the general emigration 

 was over ; and tliese may probably stay throughout the 

 year. The exquisitely coloured males arrive first, and, 

 so far as I have observed, associate but little with tlie 



