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with bnff, the edges to the greator secondary covorts fbrining a well-marked ImiV 

 liaiul about one-third of an inch in width. 



There is a male in tlie Whitaker collection from Kairoiian, (Central Tunis, 

 which is perfectly intermediate between L. elegans and L. algeriensis, the markings 

 of the wings agreeing with the former and those of tlic tail-feathers approacliing 

 the latter (cf. Whitaker, Ihi.% l.'<'.is. p. t22S). 



Mr. ('. W. Andrews recently collected a grey shrike at Moghara, Egypt, which 

 is intermediate between J., elcqans and J^. dralbatus. 



llab. Typical examples appear to be confined to Sonthcrn Algeria and 

 S. Tunis. Mr. Whitaker has specimens from Tozer and (iabes, S. Tunis. The 

 Liverpjol Museum possesses two e.Kami)les collected by ( !anon Tristram at Ghardaia, 

 in S. Algeria. In the Owens College, Manchester, there is a typical skin from 

 Algeria (Fainrutire) ex Dresser coll. ; this is the specimen " a " of Dresser's 

 />. lahtora {Birds of Europe, iii. p. 38.")) and the original of the lower figure on 

 PI. 141). 



lu. Lanius dealbatus (PI. XXVIl. tig. U). 



Lanius dealbatus Defilippi, Rev. el. Mag. Znol. 1S53. p. 28'J (Tripoli) ; Gadow, t. c. p. 250. PI. VI. 

 Lidihis Imconntnn Brehm, ././. 0. 1854. pp. 147, 148 (Blue Nile). (Type ex.imiued ; ex Mus. 



Rothschild). 

 Lanius Icuoojiijiins Hempr. & Ehrenb., Sijj/ih., Plii/s. Af. i. fol. dd. (descr. null.) (1828). 

 Lunius jmIU/is Casain, P. .!c P/iil/nl., 18.'j1. p. '245 (Fazogloa). 

 Lanius r/rimmi Bogd., t. c. p. 151, 212, and 21H. PI. IV. (Atrek River, Karelin) : Dresser, B. Enrnp,', 



ix.\Supi,l.) p. 153, PI. GGG (1895). 

 Lanius heinileucui-us Gadow (ner Finsch & Hart).), t. c. p. 249 (part.). 



Adult male. — Differs from L. hemileucurus, and resembles L. eleymi.'i in having 

 only the tiro outer pairs of tail-feathers pure white, the fourth pair having a large 

 patch of black on the middle of the inner web. It differs from both these forms in 

 having the outer web of the secondaries black to the base, the greater part of the 

 inner web and tip being white. 



Total length ca. in. ; wing 4'3, tail 43, tarsus Tl. 



Adult female. — Does not differ from the adult mde. 



Immature bird. — Differs from the adult in having the upper parts washed with 

 brown, and the secondary coverts edged with buff, and the inner webs of the 

 secondary quills dusky. 



[lab. Southern Algeria, Central and iSouthern Tunis, Southern Tripoli, Kgyi>t, 

 Nubia, and Senuai", and thence straggling into Eastern Asia. The British Museum 

 possesses a typical examj)le from Fao, Persian Gulf, collected by Mr. W. D- 

 (dimming, an immature ycwa/t; from Mesopotamia (Commander Jones), and a fine 

 adult male from Amur- Laud collected by Dr. Maack, and forming part of the Scebohm 

 Bequest. There appears to be no doubt that the locality of this specimen is correct, 

 for it bears the original label of the collector. In the Owens College, Manchester, 

 there is n, feiii'ilr specimen from Beum-bash, Transcaspia (Dr. G. Hadde), and a 

 male from Urtnn, near I'himkent, Turkestan (Dr. Men/.bier), both from the Dresser 

 collection. 



Dr. Bianchi h.is kindly lent us specimens of this species (referreil to /,. i/rimmi 

 Bogd.) from Transcaspia, Syr Daria, and Taschkend, Turkestan. 



The following synonymy refers to specimens intermediate l)etween /.. denlba/ii.i 

 and L. pallidiroxtri.t : — 



Lanius aucheri Pucheran. MS. : Bonap., Itir. ei. .Mug. Zwil. 1853. p. 294. [Persia ; co-type in 



Mus. Brit.] 



