124 LANIID.'E. 



2-9, tail 2-8-3-5, tarsus 1. These birds seem to represent an eastern 

 or paler race of T. trivirgatus. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Tete, Zambesi (^Sir J. Kirk). Liviugstone Expedition. 



Subsp. o. Telophonus ussheri. (Plate II. fig. 1.) 

 Laniariiis ussheri, Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 397 (1882). 



Adult. Very similar to T. trivirgatus, but ditfering from the 

 latter as follows : — All the underparts, excej^t the throat and the 

 middle of the abdomen (which are whitish), are ashy grey, especially 

 dark on the sides of the breast and the flanks ; the under tail-coverts 

 are whitish, with dusky bases ; edge of wing white ; under wing- 

 coverts — primaries brownish grey, secondaries white with a slight 

 reddish tinge ; bill entirely black in the adult bird, in the young 

 and immature bird brown or horn-colour, with the under mandible 

 very pale at base. Total length about 7 inches, culmeu 0'8, wing 

 2-8, tail 3- 35, tarsus 1. 



Ohs. In both the specimens of this species in the British-Museum 

 collection the two black stripes bordering the creamy white super- 

 ciliary stripe almost meet across the occiput. In the adult speci- 

 men the crown of the head is very much mottled with black, whilst 

 the immature bird (with the pale bill), has the whole crown 

 uniformly ashy brown with an ochraceous tinge like the mantle*. 



Hah. (jold Coast. Is a "Western race of T. trivirgatus, linking 

 together the latter and T. senegalus. 



a. Ad. sk. River Volta, Aug. 1870 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. (Type 



( UssJier) . of species. ) 



b. 1mm. sk. Fautee {A. Swanzy). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



3. Telophonus senegalus. 



Pie-grieche grise du Senegal, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 167, pi. xvii. fig. 1 . 

 Pie-grieche rousse a tete noire du Senegal, Datibent. PI. Enl. pi. 479. 



fig. 1. 

 Lanius senegalus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 137 (1766) ; Gm. S. N. i. p. 304. 

 Senegal Shrike, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 162. 

 Telophorus senegalus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 262 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 399, no. 6056 & 6052, pt. 



* It raav be concluded from the above description that T. usahcri differs from 

 T. senegalus only in its brown crown, a specific difference which is open to 

 doubt if we take the black mottled crown of the specimen described above as 

 a sign of immaturity. But even if compared with immature specimens of T. 

 senegalus, which have the crown of the head brown or mottled with black, the 

 two species {T. scneyalus and T. ussheri) differ from each other as follows : — T. 

 senegalus is larger in size {of. wings and tail) ; the under tail-coverts and the 

 vent are pale ochraceous with no trace of grey ; the primary under wing-coverts 

 are pale reddish, not brown ; the white tips to the tail-feathers are much larger 

 than those of T. ussheri. These differences are observable even in the two 

 specimens from the Eiver Volta, Aug. 1870, where both species occur. 



