148 LANIID.I:. 



how, with this important character, Finsch and Hartlaub coukl say 

 that, after closer examination, all the generic characters are decidedly 

 more in favour of TJiamnophilus than of any other group of the 

 genus Laniarius i^Dryoscopus). 



21. Dryoscopus cubla. 



A. Larger Race. 



Le Cubla, Levaill. Ois. cTAfr. ii. pi. 72; Sund. Krit. Framst.,Levaill. 



p. 32. 

 Lanius cubla, Shaw, Gen. Zool. yii. p. .328 ; Licht. Verz. Doiibl. 



p.4S. 

 Dryoscopus cubla, Bote, Isis, 1826, p. 973; Bp. Comp. i. p. 360; id. 



C. a. xxxviii. p. 534 ; Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 68 ; Strickl. Edinh. Neto 



Phil. Journ. ii. p. 243 ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. 



p. 173; Grill, Zool. Anteckn. p. 10; Gumey, Ibis, 1862, p. 31 ; id. 



in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 146; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 48; 



Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 376 ; Shelley, op. cif. 1875, p. 76 ; Reichnw. 



J.f. 0. 1877, p. 24; Ayres, Ibis, 1879, p. 400. 

 Malaconotus similis, Swaiiis. (nee Smith), Two Cent, and a Quarter, 



p. 342 (1838, 2 ofl). cubla, Boie). 

 Hapalolopbus cubla. Gray in Charlesic. Mag. i. p. 489 (1837). 

 Lauiarius cubla, Grar/, Gen. B. i. p. 299 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 163 ; 



Sperlinc/, Ibis, 1808, p. 290 ; Finsch ^ Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 345 ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 397, no. 6018; Sharpe, ed. Layard B. S. 



Afr. p. 392. 

 Dryoscopus orientalis, Hartl. J.f. 0. 1860, p. 180. 

 Thamnopbilus leucopygus, Later. Ann. Lye. K.Y. viii. p. 401, teste 



Salvin, Ibis, 1874, p. 316. 



B. Smaller Race. 



Dryoscopus cubla {non Shaw), Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1868, p. 44, 1874, 



p. 38, 1876, pp. 151 & 253, 1877, p. 67 ; Gumey, in Anderss. B. 



Dam. Ld. p. 146; Sharpe, P.Z.S. 1873, p. 714; Bocage, Orn. 



d Angola, p. 227. 

 Lauiarius cubla, Finsch §■ Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 345 ; Bocage, Jorn. 



Lisb. 1874, p. 56. 

 Dryoscopus sp., Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1872, p. 67, & 1873, p. 197. 



A. Larger Race. 



Adult male. Head, hind neck, mantle, and upper part of the back 

 blue-black ; the rump and lower back extremely Huffy, pure white 

 except the tips of the feathers, which generally show a slight tinge 

 of grey ; upper tail-coverts and tail black, the outer tail-feathers with 

 slight whitish tips ; scapulars black, the whole outer webs white ; least 

 wiug-coverts and primary- coverts black, the median series tipped and 

 the greater series edged and tipped with white ; quills black, nar- 

 rowl}' edged with white ; lores, feathers round the eye, and upper 

 edge of ear-coverts black ; cheeks, rest of ear-coverts, and the entire 

 under surface of body greyish white, the grey shade always strongly 

 marked ; thighs grey, with dusky bases to the feathers ; flanks 

 silvery grey ; edge of wing and under wing-coverts pure white, 

 with a small patch of black feathers ; quills ashy below, with white 



