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I. I. AM I dm:. 



1. Prionops poliolophus Fiscli. & iJclnv. 



I'rionops poliolophus Fisch. & Rchw., J.f. 0- 1884. p. 180 (Naiwasha-See). 

 A fine sories, Escarpment fioOO to 7000 ft., November 1900 to March 1901. "Iris 

 bright yellow, eyeliils black. Feet orange, claws black, bill black." Younger birds 

 have a ilnll ochreous-yellow iris. One young bird (in moult) shot fjotjo ft. high 

 in Aj)ril 1901, has the entire head dingy brownish grey, the back deep brown with 

 whitish fringes to the feathers, the tail and wings already fully feathered like the 

 adnlt, feathers of the underside still fluffy. 



(In Dr. Ausorge's book, " Under the Africiui S////,'' App., j). 339. No. 96, I 

 have enumerated birds from near Mombasa, Kibwezi, and Fajao (Uuyoro) and from 

 Ndi, as P. talacoma. While this was correct with regard to the specimens from 

 near Mombasa, Kibwezi, and Fajao, the one from Ndi, British East Africa, 28. x. 

 1896, is P. rrisfatus Kiipp.) 



1 think Prionops is a shrike. I do not recognise the family " Prionopidaer 



2. Lanius minor Gm. (Migrant). 



Lanitis minor Gmelin, Syst. Nut. i. (1788) p. 308 (ex Butfou, "habitat iu 

 Italia, Hispauia, Russia "). 



A most beautiful specimen, Escarpment 6500 ft., March 1901. (Migrant 

 from the north.) 



3. Lanius coUurio L. 



Lanius Collurio L., Sijst. yat. ed. x. (17.jSj p. 94 ('■ Europa."' Loc. typ. 

 Luecia — ex Fauna Suecica). 



Three females, Escarijment, March 1901, 1 ?, Escarpment, April 1901. 

 (Migrant.) 



4. Lanius collaris humeralis Stanley. 



[Lciniux collaris Linn., .S'y.sV. Nat. ed. xii. (1706) p. 135 (" Cap. b. spei.").] 



Lanius humeralis Stanley, Salfs Travels, App. p. 51 (1814 : Abyssinia). 



A large series, Escar]iment 6o00 to 8500 ft., collected from September 1900 

 to February 1901. In December 1900, at 8000 ft. above the .«ea, the nestling 

 was obtained, also in February 1901 at 6500 ft. Full-grown young, in the brown, 

 barred plumage, with a few black feathers appearing on the scaimlars, were shot 

 in March and April ; in November a female was shot in brown, worn j'himage, 

 with some new black feathers appearing, others in half and more than half black 

 lilumage, while others shot in October and November had already their full new 

 black jiluraage, with or without traces of the immature garb. 



(This form differs as a rule easily enough from typical collari.f in being pure 

 white underneath and generally deeper black above, but at the same time it is 

 probably best to treat the two forms as subspecies. They do not seem to occur 

 together.) 



5. Dryoscopus cubla suahelicus Ncum. 



[La?iius riilila. Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. (I^oO) p. 328 (ex Levaillant : ''Inhabits 

 the eastern coasts of Africa " — sc. S.E. Africa !).] 



Drijoscopus cuhla suaheliru.-i 0. Neumann, Jj.O. 1899. p. 414 (" Deutsch und 



