46 Mr. J. H. Gurney on additional Species of Birds 



(pi. 164). Dr. Cabanis mentions that the young male also 

 wears this livery^. — J. H. G.] 



294. JuiDA BicoLOR (Gmcl.). White-rumped Grakle. 

 Male. Iris very light yellow ; the upper mandible and the tip 



of the lower mandible black ; the base (which is slightly wattled), 

 the gapCj and the tongue yellow. 



These birds feed upon Acari and other insects. I found them 

 first upon the Bushman's Uiver in Upper Natal, and in increas- 

 ing numbers (where the locality was favourable) all along the road 

 to Potchefstroom, in the Transvaal, where they are very plen- 

 tiful. They are gregarious, and feed upon the ground. Their 

 flight is heavy. 



295. EsTRELDA cucuLLATA (Swains.) . Hooded Finch. 



Iris reddish brown ; upper mandible black, under mandible 

 ashy. 



These birds were given to me by my friend the late Mr. 

 Richard Norris. 



296. EsTRELDA CARMELiTA, Hartlaub, sp. nov. Carmelite 

 Finch. 



Male. Iris dusky ; bill black, but reddish at the base ; tarsi 

 and feet dusky. 



Shot by myself at Pieter-Maritzburg, on the banks of the 

 Little Bushman River. There were three or four of them, but 

 I only succeeded in getting the specimen sent. Of their habits 

 I know nothing. 



[This little Finch being unknown to Mr. G. R. Gray, who 

 kindly examined it for me, and differing from all the species of 

 the genus Estrelda now in the British Museum, I submitted it to 

 Dr. Hartlaub, who has also been so good as to examine it, and 

 who writes to me respecting it as follows, in reply to my request 

 that, if new, he would supply it with a specific name and de- 

 scriptive diagnosis : — 



" If really an adult male bird, it is certainly new, and could 

 be described under the name of Estrelda carmelita ; but is it not 

 a young bird ? 



* Since writing tlae above, I have observed that Mr. Layard recognizes 

 the distinctness of C. nigra, in his ' Birds of South Afiicu/ p. 182. 



