220 Mr. R. B. Sharpe on the Oriolidse 



and description, except as regards this outer tail-feather, which 

 has the base black ; but this portion of the web is generally 

 covered by the tail-coverts, and requires the attention of a more 

 careful observer than we believe Levaillant to have been, to dis- 

 cover the black colour. I can therefore only follow Prof. 

 Sundevall in considering Levaillant^s Loriodor nothing more 

 than the Gambian bird ; and accordingly Vieillot's name must 

 be employed in preference to that of Lichten stein. 



The description and measurements are taken from an adult 

 male in my own collection from Ondonga, Ovampo-land, sent 

 home by the late Mr. C. J. Andersson. The British Museum 

 also possesses a fine specimen collected at Tette by Livingstone, 

 which, coming from the same locality as the type, may almost 

 be regarded as a typical specimen. I therefore give its dimen- 

 sions along with those of the Damara bird. 



Long. tot. Rostr. Al. 



1. Tette, Livingstone. 9 1*1 5-5 



2. S Ovampo, Andersson. 8 I'l 5*2 



The bird recently described by Prof. Barboza du Bocage (/. c.) 

 as 0. anderssoni is evidently of this species. 



4. Oriolus monacha. 



Moloxita ou la Religieuse d'Abyssinie, Montbeillard, Hist. 

 Nat. Ois. iii. p. 405 (1775). 



Nun Thrush, Lath. Syn. ii. p. 77 (1785). 



Turdus monacha, Gmel. S. N^ i. p. 824 (1788) : Lath. Ind. 

 Orn. i. p. 357 (1790). 



Nun Oriole, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. iii. p. 142 (1822). 



Oriolus monacha, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 193 (1826). 



O. monachus. Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 210 (1850) : Heugl. J. 

 f. 0. 1868, p. 325; Orn. N.-O. Afr. i. p. 402 : Gray, Hand-1. 

 B. p. 292 (1869). 



0. moloxita, Riipp. Neue Wirbelth. Vog. p. 29, t. 12. fig. 1 

 (1835) ; Syst. Uebers. p. 65 (1845) : Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 232 

 (1845) : Bonap. Consp. Av. i. p. 347 (1850) : Heugl. Syst. 

 Uebers. p. 31 (1856) : Schl. Mus. P.-B. Coraces, p. 108 (1867) : 

 Gray, Hand-h B. p. 292 (1869). 

 O. pileonigro: speculo atari albo: rectricibus externis omninoflavis. 



Hab. in Abyssinia. 



