96 BIRDS OF DAMABA LAND. 



The iris is bright yellow ; legs liver-brown ; upper 

 mandible and tip of lower bluish black, remainder of 

 lower mandible bluish brown. 



Measurements of a male and a female : — 



[Professor Wahlberg, loc. cit., gives no other locality for this 

 bird than the river Swakop. This species^ I believej has not yet 

 been tigured. The following is a copy of Wahlberg's description 

 of it : — " Superne cinereo-olivacea, auchenio capiteque superne 

 et in lateribus cinereis, vertice olivaceo tincto^ stria supraoculari 

 vix ulla. Subtus alba, crisso dilute sulphureo. Cauda rotun- 

 data (rectr. ext. 9 mm. intermedia brevior) fusca, olivaceo 

 tincta. Tectrices alarum inferiores albse, remiges fiiscse, extus 

 olivaceo limbatae; I'' brevis { = \ 2'^'°) ; 2 = 7; 3, 4, et5 isqualeSj 

 longissimse . . . Femina similis mari sed major et magis olivaceo 

 tincta."— En.] 



119. Dryodromas flavida (Striok.). Blaok-breasted Dryodrome. 



Drymmcaflamda, Strickland & Sclater, Birds Uaniar., Contr. Orn. 



1853, p. 148 (female). 

 Eremomela Jlavida, Gurney, Birds Damar., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, 



p. 2. 

 Dryodromas Jlavida, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 28C2. 

 Dryodromas fiamdxu, Finsoli & Hartlaub's Vogel Ost- Afrika's, p. 240. 

 Dryodromas jlavida, Skarpe's Oat. No. 320. 



It is only in the neighbourhood of the Okavango that 

 I have found this pretty little species at all numerous, 

 and I never saw it either in Damara or in Great Namaqua 

 Land. I generally found it in small flocks, probably 



