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I'rot'fh.sor Booagf, in liis original ilescrii>tioii, does not uicnlion wiictlicr llic 

 female has the maroon-coloured patches on the flanks characteristic of the members 

 of this section of the genus. 



Hub. Island of St. Thomas. 



~"i. Lanius mackinuoui. 



Liiiiiiix iinirl-iniioiii Sharpe, Ibix. IS'.H. pp. -144 and ,0',Xi. PI. XIII. (Kuku.)u) ; Ileirtu now, J. /' (>. 

 1W2. p. 184 (Buea, Cameroons). 



Adult ni'ile ill Jreshli/ moulted jilumage. — Top of the head, nai)e, back and 

 iilil>(i' tail-coverts grey ; feathers at base of cuhuen, snjicrciliary stri]ics, scapnlai's, 

 and I ntire under parts white ; lores and ear-coverts black ; wings and tail lilack, 

 the five outer jiairs of tail-feathers narrowly tipped with white. 



Total length ca. 8 in. ; wing 3-4— 3o, tail 4-2 — 4-3, tarsus i(-fl.5. 



Adxlt feiiKile injrfsldij iiioultid plumo(/i\ — Differs from the imdr in having a 

 large patch of red chestnut feathers on each side of the body. 



Hdh. British East Africa, ranging westwards to the Cameroon Monnlains. 



30. Lanius souzae. 



Lanins soHztf. Bocage, ./. .!■■. Lish. vi. no. .\xiii. p. 2\'A (1878) (Caconla) ; (iadow, t. c. p. 2,i4. 



Adult male injreshl'/ moulted pluimuje. — Lores aud ear-coverts blackish ; head 

 and back of the neck brownish grey, shading into whitish at the base of the cnlmeji 

 and superciliary region and into reddish brown on the back : rumj) and upper tail- 

 coverts grey, washed with rufous and faintly barreil with dusky ; scapulars \\\\\\\ 

 white: wing-coverts, inner secondaries, and edges of the outer quills rufous, linely 

 and irregularly barred with dusky ; webs of the quills blackish, whitish towards 

 the base of the inner web ; throat and under parts white; breast tinged with 

 greyish ; middle tail-feathers, like the inner secondaries, rufous barred with black; 

 outer tail-feathers black, tipped with white, the white being continued down the 

 outer margins of both webs, and gradually increasing towards the outermost, which 

 are uearly pure white. 



Total length ca. T in. ; wing 3'2, tail 3'3, tarsus O'S."). 



Adult fe male, in freshbj moulted j/lumagc. — Differs from the male in having 

 the feathers of the sides and flanks washed with rufous buff. 



Younffcr birds. — Differ in having the back finely and distinctly barred with 

 blackish and the breast indistinctly barred with dusky. 



/fab. Ranging from Benguela and Angola to Western Nyasalaud. 



31. Lanius caudatus. 



Lanius miitbilii/. .Cab., in Von der Do.-ken's /iV;.sf (txl. A/r. iii. p. 28. PI. V. (1869) ; Finscli * 

 Hartl., V/ic/. (hi. A/r. iv. p. :Vii\ (1870) (Mombasa) ; fjadow, t. c. p. •2.=i4. 



Adult male ill f I e.sid If moulted plumage. — Toj) of the head, feathers bidow eye, 

 ear-coverts and hindneck smoky black, with very slight gloss ; back grey, most of 

 the feathers fringed with dusky ; rump and upper tail-coverts whitish, some of tlij 

 latter tipped with blackish ; chin, throat aud under parts pure white ; wings 

 Idack, the basal part of the prinuiries white, forming a conspicuous speculum ; tail- 

 feathers black, white at the extreme base, the outer pairs very narrowly tijiped 

 with white. 



