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All immature bird in the collection has the underparts, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts already jjure white ; but the white 'on the 

 secondaries is a little less developed, and the black colour far less 

 intense than in the adult ; greater wing- coverts tipped with pale 

 brown: bill and feet yellowish horn-colour in the skin. 



Obs. This species is easily distinguished from L. hemilencurus bv 

 its white rump. 



Hah. From Egypt, Nubia, and Sennaar to the White Nile. 

 o. Ad. sk. N. Africa. Purchased. 



''• ^^- ^^- Sennaar. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



20. Lanius elegans. (Plate YII.) 



Lanius elegans, Swains. Faun. Bor.-Am. ii. p. 122 (1831). 

 Collyrio elegans, Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 391, no. 5936. 

 Lanius lahtora, pt., Sxjhvs. apud Sharpe S,- Dresser, P. Z S 1870 

 pp. o9.:), 598. ' 



Adult (type of species). Above very pale grev, paler on the rump 

 and on the upper tail-coverts; loral space and the feathers iust 

 above the nostrils black, this colour extending round the eye and 

 over the ear-coverts, but not over the sides of the neck •" chin 

 throat, thighs, and the whole rest of the undei-parts pure white • 

 axiUaries, all the under wing-coverts, and edge of wing pure white •' 

 the two outer pairs of tail-feathers pure white, of the third pair the 

 whole outer web and the tip white, the two central pairs black at base 

 and just tipped with white, whilst all the other taU-feather.s are white 

 at the base ; scapulars white, but with a greyish shade towards the 

 base and on the inner web ; lesser wing-coverts grey : all the other 

 wing-coverts brownish or dull black, with very small paler tips • 

 primary quills pure white at the two basal thirds (the white ex- 

 tending over both webs and shafts), terminal third brownish black 

 with very narrow whitish tips ; the innermost primaries are almost 

 entirely white, the blackish colour being reduced to a subterminal 

 patch; the secondaries have the ^hole of the inner web pure 

 white ; outer web entirely white at the basal third or half the rest 

 largely bordered and tipped with white, the white decreasing in 

 extent toward the inner secondaries, so that the innermost quills 

 are almost wholly blackish brown and only just tipped with white • 

 bill and feet dark horn-colour. Culmen "oT inch win"' 4-n tnil 

 4-4, tarsus 1-2. ° ' 



Hah. Algeria and Tunis. The type specimen was presented to 

 the British Museum by the Hudson-Bav Companv, and was alle"ed 

 to have come from the fur-countries. ' Two examples (adult and 

 young) are m the collection of Canon Tristram, and an adult also 

 from Algeria in the collection of H. E. Dresser. 



Ohs. This species is intermediate in coloration between L. i<phcno- 

 cercm and L. fal/a.v, but differs from each of these forms in well- 

 marked siibspecific characters. Certaiulv it has nothing to do with 

 the well defined Indian species ( /.. 'lahtora): and we cannot 



