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CRITIHAGRA SCOLOPS. 487 
Von der Decken in the Zanzibar country in Hast Africa. A 
single specimen, without record of exact locality, was contained 
in Mr, Andersson’s collection from Damara Land, and is now in the 
British Museum. 
Above olive-green, obscurely streaked with blackish; sinciput, 
cheeks, and entire under surface of body very bright yellow; quills 
and tail-feathers dusky margined with green; bill and feet dusky. 
Total length, 43”; bill, about 4’”; wing, 2'’ 5”; tail, 1” 5’” ; 
tarsus, 8’’’. 
486. CrirHagra BuTyRAcna (L.) Common Seed-eater. 
Orithagra butyracea and C. olivacea, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 219. 
The “ Kleine Seisje,” as it is called, is abundant throughout the 
colony, congregating during the autumn in large flocks, and doing 
extensive mischief to the grain crops. It sings very sweetly, and 
thrives well in confinement. The nest is a cup-shaped structure, 
placed in a low bush; the eggs, three to five in number, are 
precisely like those of O. sulfurata, only rather less spotted, and 
smaller; axis, 8’; diam., 5’’’; it breeds in September. It is 
common at Port Elizabeth, according to Mr. Rickard, and Mr. 
Ayres states that in the Transvaal it “is common at Potchefstroom, 
breeding amongst the hedgerows, and constructing a cup-shaped 
nest rather roughly built of twigs, intermingled with fine hair- 
like substances as a binding, and lined with cotton and fine wool, 
with here and there a feather. It begins to lay in September.” 
Male.—Plumage above, olive-green ; quills the same, with whitish 
edges; from the forehead over the eyes, a yellow streak, and one 
of the same colour beneath, from the angle of the bill; under 
parts of body and rump yellow; tail yellowish green and slightly 
forked. Length, 5’’ 2’” ; wing, 2’ 10’”; tail, 2’ 4’””. 
The female, which is the 0. strigilata of Swainson, differs in 
plumage. Above, greyish olive, striped with dusty; rump and 
tail-coverts greenish yellow; sides of the head grey-brown, with 
two whitish stripes, one above the eyes, the other beneath the ears ; 
body beneath with dusky stripes; belly white; inner wing-coverts 
yellow. 
487. Onirnacra scotors, Sund. Sundevall’s Seed-eater. 
This pretty little species was discovered by Professor Wahlberg 
