'2'A I,ANlIT).i;. 



uniform black, some of the outer pairs just tipped with white ; 

 across the forehead a verj' broad browuisli-black bund, which 

 inchidcs the loral space, and extends backwards around the oje 

 over the ear-coverts and even to the shouldirs : behind the e3'e and 

 above the ear-coverts an indistinctly defined but conspicuous white 

 patch; all Hie underparts, except the under wing-coverts, are pure 

 white ; bill and feet black. The sexes are alike in colour. 



cJ . Total length 10"5 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 4"5, tail 5-4, 

 tarsus 1*15. 



5 . Total length 9-7 inches, culmen 0"75, wing 4"2o, tail 5-15, 

 tarsus 1-12. 



Ifab. North-eastern Africa. 



a, b. Ad. St. N.E. Africa. Purchased. 



c. Ad. sk. White Nile. K. B. Sharpe, Esq. ., 



d. Ad. sk. Soudan (Knoblecker). E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



23. Lanius souzae. 



Fiscus souzse, Bocaqe, Jorn. Lisb. xxiii. 1878, p. 213, xxiv. p. 270, 

 xxviii. p. 239; 'Schalow, J. f. 0. 1879, p. 212, 1880, p. 220; 

 Bocage, Ornlth. d\4nf/oIa, p. 549. 



The type specimen was a young male. Upper parts grey, wing- 

 coverts edged with rufous ; no alar speculum ; quills fuscous, 

 internally edged with rufous ; some of the tail-feathers tipped and 

 edged with white, the outer pair white for the greater part of their 

 length; under wing-coverts white; rest of underparts greyish 

 white ; forehead and superciliary region white ; scapulars partly 

 white ; bill and feet blackish ; iris fuscous. Culmen 0-55 inch, wing 

 ' 3-3.5, tail 3-5G, tarsus 0-85. 



Hub. Angola. 



a. Sk. (juv. ?). Caconda, Beugiiela (Anchieta). Lisbon Museum [P.]. 



24. Lanius caudatus. 



Lanius caudatus. Cab. in V. d. Decken's Mei's. Ostnfr. iii. pi. v. ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 391, no. 5946 ; Cab. J.f. O. 1869, pi. iii. 



Adult male. Head, hind neck, all the wing-coverts and secondary 

 quills uniform dull brownish black, shading into greyish brown 

 on the mantle and scapulars ; lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts white ; basal quarter of all the tail-feathers white, all the 

 rest black, except a very narrow white tip to some of the feathers ; 

 basal two thirds of primary quills pure white both on the inner and 

 outer web, rest brownish black, the first and second quills having 

 the whole outer web black ; edge of wing and all the underparts of 

 the body white ; axillaries and greater under wing-coverts blackish ; 

 bill and feet black; iris brown (Uildehrandt). Total length 10-5 

 inches, culmen 0-8.3, wing 4-3, tail 5-8. tarsus LIS. 



The iiounrj bird is dark dusky brown above, with fuscous and dark 



