11. lANIiRIUS. ini 



remainder of quills blackish ; inner -web of the secondaries and the 

 •wing-coverts dusky : tail-feathers black, with yellowish tips to 

 the two outer pairs ; the tips of the others simply paling from 

 black into more or less greenish grey ; the outer web of all the 

 feathers strongl}- washed with oUve-green ; head above and hind 

 neck bluish grey ; lores and a stripe behind the eyes, above and 

 just below the ear-coverts, white ; spot in front of the eye and the 

 ear-coverts, and extending somewhat down on to the sides of the neck, 

 black; cheeks, chin, and upper throat isabelline ; lower part of 

 throat and chest pale fawn-colour ; remainder of the breast, the 

 abdomen, and under tail-coverts duU white ; flanks and thighs 

 greyish washed with olive, showing very faint cross bars of darker 

 olive ; edge of wing, axillaries, and under wing-coverts, and broad 

 inner edge of quills bright yellow ; quills below blackish brown : 

 bill black ; " feet slate-colour ; iris light brown." Total length (J-5 

 inches, culmen0"5-5, wing 3'4, tail 3'55, tarsus 1. 



Adult ff male. Like the male in coloration, but having the ear- 

 coverts blackish grey, and the tail uniformly olive, washed with 

 brownish and green. 



Young. The cross bars are very numerous and more distinct than 

 in the female, and extend all over the under surface of the body. 

 A young bird, from Panmure, has the whole body above, including 

 the head and neck, olive ; ear-coverts brownish grey ; wings and 

 tail much as in the old female, the greater and primary-coverts with 

 distinct pale edges. In front of the eye a dusky white spot ; 

 under surface of body dull whitish, washed with yellow ; throat, 

 breast, and sides of the body with dusky cross bars. " Bill pale ash- 

 colour, dusky at tip ; feet as in adidt ; iris dark hazel " {T. 

 Ay res). 



Huh. South Africa. 



a, b. c? ad. st. South Africa. Purchased. 



c. 2 imm. sk. South Africa (Lni/ard). R. B. Shai-pe, Esq. 



<^- c5' juv. sk. Knysiia, Feb. 21, 1866 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



(Andeisson). 



e. 2 ad. sk. Knysna, Feb. 21, 1866 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



(Anderssoit) . 



f. c? ad. sk. Grahamstown (T. C. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



AtTitO)-e). 



<j. (S ad. sk. KingwiUiamstown, June 4, Capt. H. Trevelvan 



1877. [P.]. 



h. 2juv.sk. Panmure, July 9, 1877. Capt. 11. Trevelyan 



A.E 



/c. cJ ad. sk. South Africa. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P 



2 ad.sk. Macamac, Dee. 9, 1874. F.A.Barratt,Esq.[C.]. 



13. Laniarius olivaceus. 



L'Oliva, Levaill. Ois. cTAfr. ii. p. 10.5, pi. 75. fig. 1, pi. 76. fig. ] 



(nee plate 75. fig. 2) ; Stinder. Krit. Fraiust., LevaiU. p. .32. 

 Lanius olivaceus, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. .350; Leas. Traite, p. 373. 

 Lauiarius oUvaceus, Vieill. X. Diet. d'Hist. ]\'ot. xiii. p. 299 ; Gray, 



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