FBINGILLIDM. 185 



[The female specimen from which Mr. Andersson took the 

 measurements above recorded is now, together with two other 

 Damara examples, in the collection of Mr. R. B. Sharpe. This 

 species has not been figured. — Ed. J 



226. Petronia petronella (Licht.). Southern Yellow-throated 

 Grosbeak. 



Xanthodirajlavigula, Sundevall, Ofvers. 1860, p. 98. 



„ „ Grumey, Birds Damar., Proc. Zool. See. 1864, 



p. 3. 



„ „ Layaid in Ibis, 1869, p. 371. 



Petronia petronella, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 7244. 



I have only met with this species near the river 

 Okavango, vphere I obtained a few specimens. 



[As this species has not been figured, I here transcribe Pro- 

 fessor Simdevall's description of it, which is not very generally 

 accessible, and may therefore here be useful : — " Grisescens, 

 dorso fasco-maculato, vitta superciliari lat^ albida, macula juguli 

 flavi. Capillities fasca, alarum tectrices limbo pallescente, non 

 albido : gastrseum pallidum, ventre in mare pure albo. cJ et 5 

 in ceteris similes. 6-poUicaris. Ala 93 mm., tars. 21 : tomia 

 superiora medio obsolete angulata.^^ — Ed.] 



227. Passer arcuatus, Gmel. Cape Sparrow. 



Le Moineau du Cap de Bontie Esperance, Buifon's PI. Enl. vol. iv. 



p. 204, pi. 230. fig. 1. 

 Passer arcuatus, Layard's Oat. No. 408. 

 „ „ Sharpe's Oat. No. 657. 



This Sparrow is very abundant all over Damara and 

 Great Namaqua Land, and extends as far south as the 

 Cape, where, however, it seems to be a trifle larger than 

 in Damara Land ; it takes up its abode near to man, and 

 in all its habits exactly resembles the House-Sparrow of 

 Europe. It makes a large rambling nest of grass and 



