PTCNONOTIDJE. 121 



Measurements of a male and a female : — 



Male. Female, 



in. lin. in. lin. 



Entire length 82 82 



Length of folded wing ...36 35 



„ tarsus 11 11 



„ middle toe .... 8 06 



„ tail 88 87 



„ bill 10 10 



[Mr. Andersson gives the above particulars from specimens 

 obtained at the Knysna ; but as his last collection contained one 

 example from Lake Ngami, I, on that account, include the 

 species in the present volume. — Ed.J 



154. Criniger flaviventris (Smith). YeUow-bellied Criniger. 



Tricliophorusjlaviventris, Smith's Zool. of S. Africa, pi. 69. 

 Criniger flaviventris, Finsch, in Journ. fiir Orn. 1869, p. 22. 



„ „ Layard's Cat. No. 259. 



„ „ Sharpe's Oat. No. 196. 



[Mr. Sharpe possesses two specimens of this bird, which were 

 obtained by Mr. Andersson at Ovaquenyama. — Ed.] 



155. CrateropuS bicolor, Jard. Southern Black-and-White 

 Babbler. 



Crateropus bicolor, Jardine, in Edinburgh Journal, pi. 3. 



„ „ Strickland & Sclater, Birds Damar., Contr. Orn. 



1852, p. 145. 

 „ „ Andersson, in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 7. 



„ „ Layard's Cat. No. 252. 



,, „ Chapman's Travels in S. Afr., App. p. 396. 



„ „ Sharpe's Cat. No. 216. 



This species is common throughout Damara and Great 

 Namaqua Land, and is also found in the Lake-regions ; 

 it always occurs in flocks of many individuals, and creeps 

 and glides through the mazes of tangled wood and dense 

 thickets with amazing ease and celerity. When alarmed, 



