( 3&6 ) 



Mr. Grant {i.e. South Algeria and S. Tunis) is perfectly correct, and the recent 

 explorations of Tripoli have shown that it extends eastwards to Barka. 



jMr. Grant's No. 10, which he calls " Lanius dealbatus," is a dreadful nii.xture. 

 The name L. deulbalus was given by Defilippi to a specimen fiom the White Nile, 



TliiKl tail-fcatbcr of L. c. elcgajif, 



collected hy Brun KoUet (cf. Rev. & Mag. Zool. 1853. p. 289). The description 

 as well as the critical notes by Salvador! and Finsch, in connection with the locality, 

 leave no doubt that the name dealbatus refers to the small white-rumped species, 

 which extends from Nubia to the White Nile. Moreover I have carefully compared 

 the type in the Turin Museum. Mr. Grant quotes as the original locality " Tripoli,'' 



