THE DAMARA COUNTRY IN S. W. AFRICA. 
parts with a broad, distinct, longitudinal fuscous streak on each ; 
rcmiges fuscous, margined externally and internally towards the 
base with pale fulvous ; upper tail-covers rufo-fulvous ; rectnces 
deep fuscous, the middle and external pairs broadly, the rest nar- 
rowly, margined with fulvous ; a whitish streak above and below 
the eye ; cheeks and ear-covers light brown ; chin whitish ; breast 
pale cream colour, with a small longitudinal fuscous streak on each 
feather; belly and vent pale cream colour; beak corneous, paler 
towards the base; margin nearly straight, gonys curved upwards, 
and culmen equally so downwards ; feet and claws flesh-coloured, 
tinged with light brown ; hind claw short, slightly curved. 
Total length, 6 ; beak, to front, 6, to gape, 7. high, 2j, broad, 
2j; wing, 3.4; all the rectrices, 2.3; tarsus, 9; hind claw, 3- 
62. Nectarinia anderssoni, Strickland. Head, back and lesser 
wing-covers metallic green, the crown with a coppery gloss , upper 
tail-covers bluish-green; rectrices black, margined with bluish- 
green; greater wing-covers and rcmiges deep fuscous, margine 
externally with greyish-brown ; chin bluish-green ; cheeks and 
throat bright coppery green ; a broad zone on the bi east of violet 
purple, followed by a narrow one of dull greyish-brown ; axillary 
tufts gamboge yellow ; abdomen, sides and lower tail-covei s, dirty 
white ; beak and legs black. . .. 
Total length, 4.3; wing, 2.3; medial rectrices, i . 6, external, 1.5; 
tarsus, 7. 
Not unlike the East African species which I lately described as 
N. albiventris (p. 42, supra), but has a longer wing, no oiange on 
the axillary tuft, &c. My specimen has lost the extremity of the 
heak, so that I cannot assign its dimensions. 
63. Nectarinia fusca (Vieill.) ; Levaill. Ois. Af. pi. 296. 
64. Nectarinia senegalensis (Linn.); Levaill. Ois. Af. pi. 295, f. 2. 
65. Nectarinia bifasciata (Shaw.) 
66. Halcyon damarensis, Strickland. Plate . Crown and 
wing-covers greyish-brown, streaked with black ; upper back and 
scapulars sooty brown ; lower back and upper tail-covers vivid blue ; 
