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BIRDS OF DAMARA LAND. 



Measurements of a male and a female : 



[I have examined, at the Museum of Zoology at Cambridge, 

 the Coly from Dam^ara Land cited by Messrs. Strickland and 

 Sclater [loc. cit), and find that it unquestionably belongs to this 

 species ; probably it was in consequence of this example having 

 been misnamed that Dr. Hartlaub quotes Damara Land as a 

 locality for Colius senegalemis, in his ' Ornithologie West- 

 afrika's/ p. 155.— Ed.J 



249. Schizorhis COncolor (Smith). Whole-coloured Plantain- 

 eater. 



Chizcerhis concolor, Smith's Zool. of S. Africa, pi. 2. 

 Schizorhis concolor, Layard's Oat. No. 452. 

 Chizcerhis concolor, Chapman's Travels in S. Afr., App. p. 403. 

 Schizorhis concolor, Finsch & Hartlauh's Vogel Ost-Afrika's, p. 479. 

 „ „ Shai-pe's Cat. No. 94. 



This is one of the commonest birds in Damara Land ; 

 and it is also found abundantly in the Lake-regions and 

 at the river Okavango. It is partial to localities abound- 

 ing in large trees ; and when prominently perched, with 

 crest erect, it is not unlike a gigantic Coly; it also 

 climbs and flies like the Colics, which it strongly re- 

 sembles in its general habits. It is usually found in 

 small flocks and feeds on berries and seeds, especially 

 those of a mistletoe and of other parasitical plants, 

 and also on fruits, young shoots, and insects. The 

 Damaras call this species " Ongoro-oroquena," from the 



