PYCNONOTID^. 121 



Measurements of a male and a female : 



Male. Female, 



in. lin. in. lin. 



Entire length 82 82 



Length of folded wing ...36 35 



tarsus 11 11 



middle toe .... 8 06 



tail 38 37 



bill 10 10 



[Mr. Andersson gives the above particulars from specimens 

 obtained at the Knysna ; but as his last collection contained one 

 example from Lake Ngami, I, on that account, include the 

 species in the present volume. ED.] 



154. Criniger flaviventlis (Smith). Yellow-bellied Criniger. 



Trichophorusjlaviventris, Smith's Zool. of S. Africa, pi. 59. 

 Criniger jlaviventris, Finsch, in Journ. fiir Orn. 1869, p. 22. 



Layard's Cat. No. 259. 



Sharpe's Cat. No. 196. 



[Mr. Sharpe possesses two specimens of this bird, which were 

 obtained by Mr. Andersson at Ovaquenyama. ED.] 



155. Crateropus bicolor, Jard. Southern Black-and- White 

 Babbler. 



Crateropus bicolor, Jardine, in Edinburgh Journal, pi. 3. 



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



1852, p. 145. 



Andersson, in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 7. 



Layard's Cat. No. 252. 



,, Chapman's Travels in S. Afr., App. p. 396. 



Sharpe's Cat. No. 216. 



This species is common throughout Damara and Great 

 Namaqua Land, and is also found in the Lake-regions ; 

 it always occurs in flocks of many individuals, and creeps 

 and glides through the mazes of tangled wood and dense 

 thickets with amazing ease and celerity. When alarmed, 



