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Like all the races of Malaconotus poliocephalus^ the present one is 

 a denizen of the acacia scrub, where it lives in the denser thickets. 

 Practically nothing has been recorded of its habits other than that it 

 is shy and has a loud flutelike call. 



Table GO. — Measurements of five specimens of Malaconotus polioeephalus 



schoanus 



RHODOPHONEUS CRUENTUS CRUENTUS (Hemprich and Ehrenberg) 



Lanius cruentus Hemprich and Ehrenbeeg, Symbolae physicae, folio C, pi. 3, 



figs. 1, female, 2, 3 males, 1828 : Arkiko near Massowa. 

 Specimens collected: 



3 adult males, 2 adult females, 1 immature (female?), Ourso, Ethiopia, May 

 25-October 12, 1911 (Ouellard coll.). 



1 adult male, Hawash River, Ethiopia, February 6, 1912, 



The rosy-patched shrike occurs from southern Eritrea and, along 

 the Red Sea coast, from Port Sudan, west to western Kordofan (but 

 not to Darfur), south through Ethiopia and Somaliland to Kenya 

 Colony and northern Tanganyika Territory, south as far as northern 

 Ugogo. It divides into four races, as follows : 



1. B. G. cruentus: The Red Sea Province of the Anglo-Egyptian 

 Sudan, Eritrea, Bogosland, south to north-central Shoa (Ourso and 

 Hawash River). In this race both sexes have the upperparts grayish 

 with very little of a reddish tinge, the latter color being confined 

 largely to the crown. 



2. R. c. kordofanicus: Western Kordofan. Similar to cruentus but 

 paler, more grayish above. I have seen no birds from the White Nile 

 and cannot say which form occurs there. The White Nile birds 

 might be expected to be intermediate between this and the nominate 

 form. 



3. R. G. hilgerti: Somaliland, west through Ennia and Arussi- 

 Gallaland and extreme southern Shoa, south through Jubaland and 

 Kenya Colony as far as the Tsavo and Athi Rivers, where it meets 

 with the fourth form, cathemagmenus. This race differs from either 

 of the first two in having the upperparts darker, with a strong crim- 

 son wash, which is not confined to the crown but extends over the nape 

 and ux3per back as well. 



