156 BIRDS OF DAMARA LAND. 



usually found in small flocks, and is a clamorous bird, 

 uttering harsh choking sounds, just as though its crop 

 were too full. 



The nests of this species, which I observed in On- 

 donga, were built on palm trees ; the eggs have a buffy 

 ground-colour, and are thickly sprinkled with spots, 

 some of which are reddish and others brown, giving the 

 entire egg more or less of a pinkish hue. 



The irides are dark brown, the bill, legs, and toes 

 dark horn-colour. 



STURNID^. 



191. CinnyricincluS Verreartxi (Booage). Verreaux's Glossy 

 Starling. 



rholidavges leucogaster, Gurney, Birds Damar., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, 

 p. 3. 



„ „ Andersson, ibid. p. 6. 



Juida leucogaster (part.), Layard's Cat. No. 346. 

 Laniprotornis leucogaster, Chapman's Travels in S. Air., App. p. 404. 

 PhoUdauges leucogaster (part,), Finscli & Hartlaub's Vogel Ost- 



Afrika's, p. 376. 

 PhoUdavges Verreaiixi, id. ibid. p. 867. 

 Ctiuujricmclus Bocagei, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 6349. 

 PhoUdauges Verreauxii, Sharpe's Oat. No. 515. 



This species is common in Damara Land and to the 

 northward, but only as a migratory bird, arriving at the 

 approach of the rainy season, and gradually leaving as 

 the country dries up, though I have observed a few 

 individuals remaining long after the general emigi;ation 

 was over ; and these may probably stay throughout the 

 year. The exquisitely coloured males arrive first, and, 

 so far as I have observed, associate but little with the 



