158 BIRDS OF DAMARA LAND. 



and throat ; streaked with brown on the breast and legs, 

 closely so on the belly and flanks, the under tail-coverts 

 being marked with a few isolated and very small spots. 



The irides in this species are light chrome-yellow, the 

 bill black, the legs brownish, and the toes the same but 

 darker. 



Measurements of a male and a female : 



Male. Female, 



in. lin. in. lin. 



Entire length 70 6 11 



Length of folded wing ... 4 3 10 



tarsus 11 10 



middle toe ....07 07 



tail 24 24 



bill 11 10 



[Mr. R. B. Sharpe has called my attention to the circum- 

 stance that the Pholidauges inhabiting Damara Land is not (as, 

 in common with some other ornithologists, including the late 

 Mr. Andersson, I had previously supposed) Pholidauges leuco- 

 gaster, but the nearly related P. Verreauxii, chiefly distinguished 

 from P. leucogaster by the white ending to the external vane of 

 the lateral rectrices in the adult male, and first noticed as a 

 native of Benguela by the learned Portuguese ornithologist 

 Professor Barboza du Bocage. 



As I believe that no English description of this recently 

 observed species has yet been published, I have here given that 

 drawn up by Mr. Andersson and contained in his MS. notes. I 

 am not aware that Pholidauges Verreauxi has yet been figured. 



Mr. Blanford's observations on the generic affinities of the 

 allied species P. leucogaster, as given in his ' Geology and Zoo- 

 logy of Abyssinia/ p. 367, appear to me to be well worthy of 

 consideration . ED.] 



192. Juida australis (Smith). BurchelTs Glossy Starling. 



Lamprotornis Burchellii, Smith's Zool. of S. Africa, pi. 47. 

 Juida australis, Strickland & Sclater, Birds of Damar., Contr. Orn. 

 1852, p. 149. 



