21G BIIWS OF DAMARA LAND. 



Measurements of a female : — 



in. lin. 



Entire length 9 



Length of folded -wing 6 7 



„ tarsus .... .07 



„ tail . . . .2 10 



bill . .09 



259. Psittacula roseicollis (VieilL). Rosy-necked Love-bird. 



Psittacula roseicollis, Bourjot's Perr. pi. 91. 



Agaponiis roseicollis, Strickland & Sclater, Birds Damar., Contr. 



Orn. 1852, p. 156. 

 Psittacula roseicollis, Layard's Cat. No. 461. 

 Ayapornis roseicollis. Chapman's Travels in S. Afr., App. p. 406. 

 Psittacula roseicollis, Finsch & Haitlaub's Vbgel Ost-Afrika's, p. 501. 

 „ „ Sharpe's Cat. No. 177. 



This pretty little species is very generally distributed 

 over Damara and Great Namaqua Land, and is also 

 found on the Okavango and at Lake Ngami. It is 

 always observed in small flocks, and seldom far from 

 water, to which it resorts at least once in the day, 

 and is consequently not a bad guide to a thu-sty 

 traveller; though, if he be inexperienced, it would 

 hardly avail him much, as it frequently happens that 

 the drinking-places resorted to by this and other 

 water-loving birds are of but small compass and 

 strangely situated. 



This species is very swift of flight, and the little flocks 

 in which it is observed seem to flash upon the sight 

 as they change their feeding-grounds or pass to or from 

 their drinking-places; their flight, however, is only for 

 a comparatively short distance at a time. They utter 

 rapid and shrill notes when on the wing, or when sud- 



