182 BIRDS OF DAMARA LAND. 



This species occurs in Damara Land in the wet 

 season, but is even scarcer than Vidua principalis in 

 that country, though not unfrequent at Lake Ngami. 



The bill is black, the legs and toes brown. 



221. Crithagra angolensis (Gmel.). Black-throated Bullfinch. 



Linnets from Angola, Edwards's Birds, pi. 129 (male and female). 



Fringilla angolensis, Gmelin's Syst. Nat. p. 918. 



Poliospiza angolensis^ Hartlaub's Orn. "VVestafrica's, No. 456. 



Fringilla angolensis, Layard's Cat. No. 404. 



Crithagra angolensis, Sharpe's Cat. No. 637. 



I have met with this species both in Damara Land 

 and further northward; it congregates in large flocks, 

 and often associates with C. cJirysopyga. 



The iris is brown, the upper mandible flesh-coloured, 

 the lower mandible and also the legs and toes of a dirty 

 flesh-colour. 



Measurements of a male and a female : 



Male. Female, 



in. lin. in. lin. 



Entire length 48 43 



Length of folded wing ... 2 8 2 7 



tarsus 06 6 



middle toe ....05 06 



tail 1 11 ...... 1 9 



bill 04 04 



[The male specimen of which Mr. Aiidersson here records 

 the measurements is now in the collection of Mr. R. B. Sharpe. 

 ED.] 



222, Crithagra chrysopyga, Swains. Golden-rumped Bullfinch. 



Crithagra chrysopyga, Swainsou's Birds of W. Afr. vol. i. pi. 17. 

 Crithagra Hartlaiibii, Gurney, Birds Damar., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, 

 p. 3. 



