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1. Urolestes melanoleucus. 



Lanius melanoleucus, Jard. S^ Selhy, III. 0/-rt. iii. pi. 115 (18-35); 



Lnfresnaye, Mag. da Zool. 183<i, pi. (Jl. 

 Lanius melanurus, Licht. Verz. Vo(/. Kaffernl. p. 12. 

 Basanistes cissoides, Licht. t. c. p. 12. 

 Lanius cissoides, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 291 (nee Vieill.) ; Layard, B. 



S. Afr. p. 158. 

 Corviuella cissoides, Bj}. C. A. i. p. 365. 

 Urolestes melanoleucus, Cab. Mtis. Hein. p. 75 ; Fi'nsch ^- Kartl. 



Viig. Ostafr. p. 335; Gurney in Anderss. B. Damar. Ld. p. 138; 



Ay res, Ibis, 18G9, p. 293 ; Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. pp. 490, cxxii ; 



Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 219 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard B. S. Afr. 



p. 380. 

 Basanistes cissoides, Hartl. P. Z S. 1863, p. 105. 

 Urolestes cissoides, Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1868, pp. 48, 345 ; Gurnei/, 



Ibis, 1869, p. 293 ; Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 377. 



Adult male. The lower back and rump (except the upper tail- 

 coverts, the scapulars, the tips of aU the quills, and the middle 

 fifth of the primaries) pure white ; throat and fore ueck blackish 

 brown ; aU the remainder of the body glossy black ; " iris hazel ; 

 bill, feet, and claws black" (Oafes). Total length 19 inches, culmen 

 O'T, wing o-o, tail 13, tarsus 1'37. 



Adult female. Like the male, but distinguished by the pure white 

 colour of the long flank-plumes, some of the longest of which are 

 white internally and black on the outer web. Total length 17-5 

 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 5-3, tail 12-6, tarsus 1-3. 



Youncj. Blackish brown, with edgings of clearer brown to most of 

 the feathers, especially on the wing-coverts ; scapidars white, washed 

 with brown at the tips ; quUls blackish, their tips and basal half 

 white ; lower back and rump greyish white ; tail black ; sides 

 of face and under surface of body brown, with narrow fulvous 

 edges to the feathers ; on the flanks a brownish-white patch. 



Hub. Southern and Eastern Africa. 



06s. A case of partial albinism is represented by a female speci- 

 men collected by Mr. Gates near the Crocodile river. It has all 

 those parts which are black in the tj-pical specimens rusty brown, 

 each feather with lighter edges ; " iris ochraceous hazel " (Oatcs). 



Another variety is like the tj-pical form, but has the first primary 

 of one side pure white instead of black. 



a. Pull. St. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.l. 



b. Ad. St. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.j. 



e. Juv. sk. Damara Land. C. J. Andersson, Esq. fC.l. 



d. Ad. sk. Xatal. R. B. Sharpe, Esq 



e. S o.d. sk. Transvaal. A. Foresman, Esq. [P.]. 



f. cJsk. : r/. Var. Crocodile river. Trans- AV. E. and C. G. Gates, 



vaal, .July 1874 (i^.O«f<=s). Esqrs. [P.]. 

 h. 2 ad. sk. Tati, March 25, 1874 {F.' W. E. and C. G. Gates, 



Oates). Esqrs. [P.]. 



?-. [ (5 ] ad. sk. Tati (F. Oates). W. E. and C. G. Gates. 



Esqrs. [P.] 



