156 BIRDS OF DAMARA LAND. 



usually found in small flocks, and is a clamorous bird, 

 uttering harsh choking sounds, just as though its crop 

 were too full. 



The nests of this species, which I observed in On- 

 donga, were built on palm trees ; the eggs have a buffy 

 ground-colour, and are thickly sprinkled with spots, 

 some of which are reddish and others brown, giving the 

 entire egg more or less of a pinkish hue. 



The irides are dark brown, the bill, legs, and toes 

 dark horn-colour. 



STUKNIDJE. 



191. CmnyricincluS Verreauxi (Bocage). Verreaux's Glossy 

 Starling. 



Pholidauges leucogaster, Gurney, Birds Damar., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, 

 p. 3. 



,, Andersson, ibid. p. 6. 



Juida leucogaster (part.), Layard's Cat. No. 346. 

 Lamprotornis leucogaster, Chapman's Travels in S, Air., App. p. 404. 

 Pholidauges leucogaster (part.), Finsch & Hartlaub's Vogel Ost- 



Afrika's, p. 376. 



Pholidauges' Verreauxi^ id. ibid. p. 867. 

 Cinnyricinclus Bocagei, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 6349. 

 Pholidauges Verreauxii, S-harpe's Cat. No. 515. 



This species is common in Damara Land and to the 

 northward, but only as a migratory bird, arriving at the 

 approach of the rainy season, and gradually leaving as 

 the country dries up, though I have observed a few 

 individuals remaining long after the general emigration 

 was over ; and these may probably stay throughout the 

 year. The exquisitely coloured males arrive first, and, 

 so far as I have observed, .associate but little with the 



