220 BIRI&S OF SOUTH AFRICA. 



stripe of bright-yellow is above each eye, meeting on the 

 front ; another below the ear ; upper tail-coverts, and the whole 

 of the under plumage, from chin to vent, also yellow. 

 Length, 4" ; wing, 2" 4'"; tail, 1" 5'". 



I have seen this from Damaraland ; but have not met with it within 

 my limits. Hartlaub, however, gives it as a South African species. 



445. Crithagra Flaviventris, GmeL; 



Flaviventris, Shaw, Zool., Vol. IX., p. 271 ; Cocco- 

 thraustes Lutea ; Briss., Orn. III., p. 227, t. 11, f. 2 ; 

 Yellow-bellied Grosbeak, Lath., Gen. Syn., 3, 138, 42. 

 ON each side of head, passing over the eye, is a stripe of 

 yellow ; head, hind part of neck, and back, olive-green, 

 sprinkled with brown ; quills and tail brown, with olive- green 

 edges ; under parts of body plain yellow ; rump olive-green ; 

 tail slightly forked. Length, 5". 

 Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. Shaw, loc. cit. 



446. Crithagra (?) Africana ; Loxia Africana, 



Gmel. ; African Grosbeak Shaw, VoL IX., Part 2, p. 

 272 ; Le Verdier Sans Vert, Buff, His. Nat., Vol. 4, 

 p. 364. 



UPPER parts, olive-brown and grey ; upper wing- coverts 

 rufous ; greater quills edged with rufous-white ; under parts 

 of body white, varied on the breast with brown ; tail olive- 

 brown, outer feathers edged with rufous-white, the outermost 

 with a white spot near the tip. Length, 6^". 



" Comes from the Cape of Good Hope."- Shaw, loc. cit. This 

 species has not been recognised by any subsequent author : it is 

 probably some species of Crithagra in non-breeding plumage. 



The Fifth Family, COLIDJE, or Colies, 



have the bill moderate, with the culmen elevated at the base, 

 and the sides compressed to the tip, which is acute ; the 

 nostrils placed in the middle of a large membranous groove, 

 with the opening small and exposed ; the wings short ; tail 

 much lengthened, and graduated ; the tarsi robust ; and the 

 toes lengthened, the outer as long as the inner ; the hind 

 toe moderate, united at the base of the inner toe and directed 

 forward. 



The only Sub-Family, COLINJE, or Colies, 



have the characters given above. 



