96 BIRDS OF DAMARA LAND. 



The iris is bright yellow ; legs liver-brown ; upper 

 mandible and tip of lower bluish black, remainder of 

 lower mandible bluish brown. 



Measurements of a male and a female : 



[Professor Wahlberg, loc. cit., gives no other locality for this 

 bird than the river Swakop. This species, I believe, has not yet 

 been figured. The following is a copy of Wahlberg' s description 

 of it : " Superne cinereo-olivacea, auchenio capiteque superne 

 et in lateribus cinereis, vertice olivaceo tincto, stria supraoculari 

 vix Tilla. Subtus alba, crisso dilute sulphureo. Cauda rotun- 

 data (rectr. ext. 9 mm. intermedia brevior) fusca, olivaceo 

 tincta. Tectrices alarum inferiores albse, remiges fuscae, extus 

 olivaceo limbatse; l a hrevis ( = J 2 dse ) ; 2 = 7; 3, 4, et 5 jequales, 

 longissimse . . . Femina similis mari sed major et magis olivaceo 

 tincta." ED.] 



119. Dryodromas flavida (Strick.). Black-breasted Dryodrome. 



Drymcecajlawda, Strickland & Sclater, Birds Damar., Contr. Orn. 



1852, p. 148 (female). 



Eremomela jftavida, Gurney, Birds Damar., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, 

 . p. 2. 



Dryodromasflavida, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 2862. 

 Dryodromasjlavidus, Finsch & Hartlaub's Vogel Ost- Afrika's, p. 240. 

 Dryodromasflavida, Sharpe's Cat. No. 320. 



It is only in the neighbourhood of the Okavango that 

 I have found this pretty little species at all numerous, 

 and I never saw it either in Damara or in Great Namaqua 

 Land. I generally found it in small flocks, probably 



