11. LANlARItrs. 155 



ochraceous buff; under wing-coverts black ; "bill black, feet lead- 

 colour ; iris pale yellow " (Hew/lin). Total length 8-3 inches, cul- 

 men 0-!), wing 4"1, tail -i'l, tarsus 1'35. 

 Bab. Xorth-eastern Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. White Nile. Sir Samuel Baker [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. "White Nile (Mus. Holm.). E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



c. (^ ad. sk. Abyssinia. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



6. Laniarius hypopyrrhus. 



Vanga cruenta, Less, in Belanger Voy. hide, p. 25G ; id. Cent. Zool. 



pi. 05 {nee Hempr. Sf- Ehrenh.). 

 Laniarius cruentus, Bj). Consp. i. p. 360 ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. 



p. 109; Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. I;i69, p. 53; Hartl. J.f. 0. 1861, 



p. 172. 

 Harcolestes hypopyrrhus, /. et E. Verreaux, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 



1855, p. 419 cnee Hartl). 

 Laniarius hypopp-rhus, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 611 (nee Hartl.). 



AduU. Head and neck blue-grey, as also the sides of the face ; 

 lores, eyebrows, and a ring round the eye white ; back rich olive- 

 green, the wing-coverts green like the back ; bastard-wing and pri- 

 mary coverts blackish on their inner webs ; quills black, externally 

 olive-green, the secondaries with conspicuous yellow tips and having 

 a subterminal bar of black ; aU the tail-feathers olive-green, tipped 

 with yellow, with a rather broad subterminal bar of black right 

 across the tail ; under surface of body gamboge-yellow, strongly 

 washed with bright scarlet on the throat and breast ; lower abdo- 

 men, thighs, under tail-coverts, and edge of wing gamboge-yellow ; 

 flanks olive-green, slightly streaked with scarlet ; under wing- 

 coverts sulphur-yellow, Hke the edge of the inner web of the quills, 

 which are dusky brown below; " bill black ; iris grey " (CVossZe^). 

 Total length 9 to 10 inches. 



Culmen. Wing. Tail. Tarsiis. 



in. 

 1-3 

 1-25 

 1-4 



M. J. Ven-eaux. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Eyton Collection. 



7. Laniarius poliocMamys. (Plate III.) 



Laniarius hj-popvi-rhus, Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 49 (nee Verr.) ; id. 

 Ibis, 1872, p. 71 ; Ussher, op. cit. 1874, p. 64. 



Adult. Very similar to L. 7ii/pop>jrrhv.s, but distinguished by the 

 blue-grey colour of tlie head and neck extending over the whole 



