204 BIRDS OF DAMARA LAND. 



Measurements of a male and a female : 



Male. Female. 



in. lin. in. lin. 



[I have examined, at the Museum of Zoology at Cambridge, 

 the Coly from Damara Land cited by Messrs. Strickland and 

 Sclater (loc. cit.), and find that it unquestionably belongs to this 

 species ; probably it was in consequence of this example having 

 been misnamed that Dr. Hartlaub quotes Damara Land as a 

 locality for Colius senegalensis, in his ' Ornithologie West- 

 afrikaV P- 155. ED.] 



249. Schizorhis COIlCOlor (Smith). Whole-coloured Plantain- 

 eater. 



Chizcerhis concolor, Smith's Zool. of S. Africa, pi. 2. 

 Schizorhis concolor, Layard's Cat. No. 452. 

 Chizcerhis concolor, Chapman's Travels in S. Afr., App. p. 403. 

 Schizorhis concolor, Finsch & Hartlaub's Vogel Ost-Afrika's, p. 479. 

 Sharpe's Cat. No. 94. 



This is one of the commonest birds in Damara Land ; 

 and it is also found abundantly in the Lake-regions and 

 at the river Okavango. It is partial to localities abound- 

 ing in large trees ; and when prominently perched, with 

 crest erect, it is not unlike a gigantic Coly; it also 

 climbs and flies like the Colies, which it strongly re- 

 sembles in its general habits. It is usually found in 

 small flocks and feeds on berries and seeds, especially 

 those of a mistletoe and of other parasitical plants, 

 and also on fruits, young shoots, and insects. The 

 Damaras call this species " Ongoro-oroquena," from the 



