120 BIRDS OF DAMARA LAND. 



Damara Land on the llth of October contained two 

 eggs rather hard sat on ; the nest was situated in a 

 dabbe bush, and was composed of twigs and grass exter- 

 nally, lined internally with finer grass. 



The iris in this species is a rather pale yellowish red, 

 and the skin round the eye bright orange ; the bill 

 black, the legs and toes dark shiny brown. 



[Mr. B. B. Sharpe possesses three specimens of this Bulbul, 

 obtained by Mr. Anderssou at Objimbiiique, in Damara Land, 

 in the months of June, July, and September. ED.] 



152. PycnonotllS tricolor, Hartl. Angola Bulbul. 



Pycnonotus capensis, Strickland & Sclater, Birds Damar., Contr. Om. 



1852, p. 145. 



Lros tricolor, Hartlaub, in Ibis, 1862, p. 341. 

 Pycnonotus tricolor, Sharpe's Cat. No. 211. 



Sharpe, in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 130, pi. 7. 



fig. 2. 



[Mr. B. B. Sharpe possesses two specimens of this species 

 obtained by Mr. Andersson in January 1867, one at Ova- 

 quenyama, the other in Ondonga. A previous specimen trans- 

 mitted by Mr. Andersson to this country is now in the late 

 Mr. Strickland' s collection at Cambridge, and appears to have 

 been the bird included in Messrs. Strickland and Sclater's 

 Damara list, under the name of Pycnonotus capensis. ED.] 



153. PhyllastrepnUS capensis, Swains. Cape Jaboteur. 



Le Jaboteur, Levaillant's Ois. d'Afr. pi. 112. fig. 1. 

 Phyllastrephus capensis, Layard's Cat. No. 266. 

 Sharpe's Cat. No. 207. 



This species feeds on seeds. The iris is yellow ; the 

 upper mandible horn-colour, the lower bluish; tarsus 

 bluish. 



