loU LANIIDJE. 



c. [21 nd. sk. Port Elizabeth. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



d. c? ad. sk. Eland's Post {T. C. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Atmore). 



e. Id] ad. sk. Port Xatal. R. B. Sliarpe, Esq. 

 f,c/. [ cJ ] ad. sk. Crocodile River (F. W. E. & C. G. Gates, 



Oates). Esqrs. [P.]. 



B. Smaller Race. 



a. c? ad. sk. Elephant Vley, Da- R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



mara Ld., Sept. 16, 

 1859 {C. J. Anders- 

 son). 



b,c,d. [ (i~\a.d. s\i. Tete, Zambesi (.SiV J. Livingstone Expedition 

 Kirk). [C.]. 



e. S ad. sk. Mosanibique. Purchased. 



f. cJ ad. sk. Makalaka country. Dr. R. F. Bradshaw [0.]. 



22. Dryoscopus tricolor. 



Laniarius (Dryoscopus) tricolor, Cab. ^- Eeichen. J.f. 0. 1877, p. 103; 

 Heichen. op. cit. 1877, p. 24. 



Adult female (Chinchoxo : Falkenstein : type of species). Entire 

 head and hind neck glossy blackish, extending onto the mantle and 

 scapulars, which are dusky grey ; least wing-coverts dusky grey ; 

 median and greater coverts ashy brown, edged with blackish, some 

 of those near the centre of the series externally margined with 

 whitish ; quills dusky brown, with narrow margins of hoary grey, 

 not very pronounced ; entire back below the mantle, and rum[t, pure 

 white ; upper tail-coverts ashy grey, tipped with white ; tail-feathers 

 blackish, tipped with a narrow line of white on some of the outer 

 ones; nasal plumes, lores, feathers round the eye, and sides of face 

 white, the ear-coverts tipped with black like the adjoining sides of 

 the neck ; rest of under surface of the body white, including the 

 thighs, under wing-coverts, and inner edges to the quills, which 

 are otherwise ashy brown below ; " iris clear red " (Fall-eastern). 

 Total length 6-5 inches, culmen 07, wing 3-05, tail 2-7, tarsus 0-9. 

 {Mus. Berol.) 



Hah. Congo district. Western Africa. 



11. LANIARIUS, 



Type. 

 Laniarius, Vieill. Analyse, p. 41, no. 128 (1816). . . . L. barbarus. 



Pelicinius, Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 973 L. bacbakiri. 



Malaconotus, Swains. Zool. Journ. iii. p. 163 (1827) . . L. poliocephalus. 

 Telophorus, Szcains. Faun. Bor.-Am. p. 481 (1831). . L. bacbakiri. 

 Meristes, Reichb. (7iec Bp.), At: Si/st. Nat. pi. Ixx. 



(1850) L. olivaceus. 



Archolestes, Cab. Mtis. Hein. i. p. 71 (1850) L. olivaceus. 



Chlorophoneus, Cab. op. cit L. ruhiginosus. 



Rhodophoneus, Heugl. MS. L. cruentus. 



Bill generally very stout, strongly hooked and notched ; nostrils 



