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Hah. North Africa, northpni parts of Jloroceo, Algeria, and Tunis. We are 

 not aware of its occiirreiipf in Northern Tripoli, Imt to the East it is found in 

 8outh-West Arabia on the borders of the Yemen. 



IT. Lanius meridioualis (I'l. XXVIll. tig. I-")). 



Laiiiim iiinhUnniili.i Temm., Mmi. il'Orn. i. p. 143 (1820) (South of France, Spain) ; Bogd., t. c. 

 pp. 118, 209, and 218 ; Gadow, t. c. p. 246. 



Adult male. — Differs chiefly from L. alqeriensis in having the under parts 

 white, strongly washed with pink, which colour extends over the throat ; and the 

 white on the basal part of the primaries is much reduced, only extending for about 

 ()'4 of an inch beyond the coverts ; there is a narrow white band across the base of 

 the culmen, continued above the eye in a superciliary stripe. The upper parts are 

 of the same deep grey as in L. abjerienais, and the tail is similarly marked. 



Total length ca. 9-5 in. ; wing i-Z, tail 4-2, tarsus 1-25. 



Adult female. — Djes not differ from the 7nale. 



Hah. South of France, Spain, and Portugal. Records of this sjiecies occurring 

 in Italy, Sicily, and Sardinia, etc,, are ap{)arently erroneous, though it has un- 

 doubtedly been obtained in Corfu and the Ionian Islands. 



Is. Lanius antiuorii. 



Latihts aiitinorii Salvad., Ann. Mus. Cir. Gcnov. xii. p. ;U6 (1878) ( Wouluu R., D;inakil Country). 

 Gadow, t. c. p. 'ihh. 



Adult male. — Forehead, crown and mantle black ; back grey ; rump whitish ; 

 under parts white ; secondary quills black tipped with white ; outer [juir of tail- 

 feathers always pure white ; fifth pair generally pure white, or with a patch of 

 black on the middle of the inner web; fourth pair generally black tipjied with 

 white, but iu one male from Sheikh, Somaliland (E. Loit riiillips), they are white 

 with a black patch on the middle of the inner web. 



Total length ca. 8'5 in. ; wing 4, tail 3-S, tarsus 1-2. 



Adult female. — Similar to the male. 



Yoany. — Pattern of wings and tail as iu the adult ; general colour above sandy 

 brown, the breast and sides being washed with the same colour ; wing-coverts, 

 scapulars and upper tail-coverts pale sandy, with concentric dusky bars ; bill pale 

 horn-colour. 



Hah. Southern Abyssinia and North Somaliland. 



11'. Lanius dorsalis. 



Lanius {Fiscus) dorsalis Cab., J./. 0. 1878. p. 205 (East Africa). 



Lanius dormlis Shelley, Ibis., 1885. p. 401 (Somaliland) ; Sharpe, IIik, 1801. p. .095 (Siili Country). 



Adult male. — Differs ivom L. antinorii chxa&y in having the secondary (|uills 

 black, without white tips ; the outer pair of tail- feathers with the greater part of 

 the inner web black, and the fifth pair black, with the tip and base white. 



Total length ca. S-5 in. ; wing 4-1, tail 3-s ; tarsus 1-15. 



Ihe. female probably does not differ from the male, but we have not been able 

 to examine any specimen. 



Hab. South Somaliland to British East Africa. 



