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from a good series collected by Riggenbacli — tliose from the Western Senegal 

 Colony never do so. Professor Neumann lias studied these questions, bnt has, 

 unfortunately, not yet published his observations. 



08. Campephaga phoenicea (Lath.) 

 1 ? ad. from the Kaduna River. 



99. Prionops plumata (Shaw). 



Ad., Zaria, November 1912, and Kadnna River. 



The amount of grey on the occiput varies considerabl)'. Sometimes the occiput 

 is slaty grey, sometimes white, with just a bufFy grey tinge. In a series of skins 

 collected by Riggenbach in the \Vestern Senegal Colony not one has the occiput so 

 light, and few have such a long crest as the Zaria specimens, but this cannot 

 be a local character, as specimens from the Niger are like the Senegal ones. A 

 specimen of unknown locality in the Tring Museum has the occiput almost entirely 

 pure white ; it is labelled " Sudan, von Jliiller," and was bonght from Schneider 

 sen. in Basel; it came apiiarently from I ho collection of Schiitt in Freiburg, and 

 was certainly not obtained in the Eastern Sudan by Baron von Miiller. Nenmatm 

 mentioned it in Jouni. f. Orn. 1005, p. 219. 



liHi. Corvinella corvina corvina (Shaw). 

 Zaria and Kaduna River, province of Zaria. 



lul. Nilaus afer afer (Lath.) 

 Si, Zaria, 12. iv. 1913, and Kaduna River. 



102. Laniarius barbarus (L.) 



Kaduna, Kaduna River, Zaria, 6, 17. i.x., V, 27. ix. 1912. The S (17. ix.) is 

 moulting wings, tail and body plumage. 



103. Dryoscopus gambensis gambensis (Licht.) 

 S ad., Zaria. 



104. Harpolestes senegalus pallidus (Neum.) 



Telophnnm seiie(jalus pnllldus Neumann, Jmini. f. Oni. 1907, p. 37.5 (" Ober-Guinea von der 

 Goldkiiste bis zuni Niger. Exemplare von tier KUste, Accra, sind die typisclisten. Excmplaro 

 aus dem Innern um ein geringes dunkler gefiirbt. Typus ; (J Accra, 4. .\i. 1807, C. W. Nartcy 

 coll., in Tring Museum.") 



iSS ad., jirovince of Zaria, August 29 ; also Kadnna, on the Kadnna River. 



Neumann se2iarated this form on account of its j)aler coloration and smaller 

 size from T. senegalus senegalus. As far as the material in the Tring Museum 

 goes, this separation was justified. Our three Zaria skins are certainly lighter on 

 the upperside than T. senegalus senegalus from the Senegal colony, but not smaller. 

 Wings 88, 90, 92-5 mm. 



There has been some discnssion about the generic name of these Shrikes. 

 Reichenow called them Pomatorhyiichus, but 1 have elsewhere explained that 1 

 cannot share his view. I accepted Telophonus of 1837, but I had then overlooked 



