THE DAMARA COUNTRY IN S. W. AFRICA. 
plate 272. The latter species in fact requires a new name, and I 
propose to term it Pytelia exterior , in allusion to its less distant 
habitat. / . _ _ . ,, 
The P. melba , as above indicated, is distinguished by having the 
front (not including the eyes), chin, and whole of the throat deep 
scarlet, breast yellowish -olive, crown, cheeks, and nape, deep 
cinereous, belly and sides fuscous, barred and spotted with white, 
each feather having two medial white bars and two subterminal 
transversely ovate white spots, separated by fuscous bars nearly 
equal in breadth to the white ones; lower tail-covers cream 
colour; back and wings yellowish-olive; upper tail-covers brick- 
red; rectrices fuscous, margined externally with brick-red; beak 
reddish; legs pale brown. 
The P. citerior, Strickland (Edw. Birds, pi. 272 f. inf., Estrilda 
elegans , Kiippell, and Pytelia elegans of my list of Ivor do fan birds 
in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 218), differs in having the front (in- 
cluding the eye), forepart of cheeks, and chin, scarlet ; throat and 
breast light yellow ; crown and hind neck pale cinereous ; belly 
and sides white, with narrow bars of pale brown, three or four on 
each feather ; lower tail-covers white ; back, wings, rump, tail, 
beak, and legs, as in P. melba. 
55. Colius erythrojpus , Gm. ; ( G . leuconotus, Lath.). 
56. Colius macrurus (Linn.); (P. senegalensis , Gm.). 
57. Criihagra. Brown, streaked with deep fuscous above, 
dirty white below. 
Length, i .4 ; wing, 2.7; beak and legs pale. Probably a 2, but 
is identical with a specimen in my collection from Kordofan. 
58. Fringillaria capensis (Linn.) ; Buff. PI. Enl. 158, f. 2 ; 
( Pringilla ncevia , Gm. ; Fringillaria vittata. Swains.). 
°0. Alauda erythrochlamys , Strickland. Whole upper parts 
and wings nearly uniform ferruginous, becoming paler on the upper 
tail-covers and medial pair of rectrices. All the wing-feathers 
narrowly margined with pale cream colour externally ; the remiges 
iight fuscous on their shafts and inner webs. A streak above and 
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