256 L.VMID.E. 



Laiiius fiscui?, Cab. Mus. Ilein. i. p. 77 (18ij0) ; Finsch, Tr. Z. S. vii. 



p. 253. 

 Lanius arnaudi, Des Murs. 

 Fiscus arnaudi, Bp. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1853, p. 434 ; Heuyl. Fauna 



roth. Meet: no. 128. 

 Collyi'io fiscus, Grag, Hand-l. B. i. p. 391, no. 5945. 



A. South-western Eace. 



Adult male. Head, hind neck, and mantle dull brownish black ; 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts grey ; tail-feathers black, 

 with large white tips to the outer pair, the black being sometimes 

 reduced to a comparatively small patch on the basal half of the 

 inner web ; greater part of scapulars pure white, except the base, 

 which generally is pale grey ; scapulars and some of the lesser wing- 

 coverts black, externally bordered with whitish ; M'ing-coverts and 

 secondary quills uniform brownish black, the latter with very nar- 

 row white tips ; the first and second (juills entirely brownish black, 

 the others with the basal half or third throughout piire white, the 

 terminal half brownish black ; edge of wing white ; under wing- 

 coverts blackish, margined and intermingled with white ; axillaries 

 greyish black on inner web, white on the outer web ; chin, throat, 

 lower abdomen, and under tail-coverts white ; all the rest of under- 

 parts greyish, as every feather has numerous very faiut and narrow 

 dark cross bars ; feathers of the thighs blackish at base, with the 

 rest white ; bill and feet black ; iris dark brown. 



Adult female. Generally with a more greyish tinge above, and 

 distinguished from the male by a more or less conspicuous chestnut- 

 coloured patch on the flanks. 



Young bird. Ashy brown, waved with dusky bars across the whole 

 of the upper surface, the scapulars dull white, slightly washed with 

 rufous externally, the cross bars wider apart ; wing-coverts dark 

 brown, with subterminal rufous bars ; quills dark brown, the 

 primar3'-coverts and primaries tipped with rufous, the secondaries 

 broadly edged, the innermost mottled with that colour ; alar spe- 

 culum at base of primaries not so large as in the adult ; tail dull 

 brown, washed with rufous on the edge of the feathers, the tips of 

 which are paler, with a subterminal narrow band of dusky blackish ; 

 the outer tail-feathers huffy white externally and at the tip, sub- 

 terminally mottled with brown ; lores slightly whitish ; cheeks and 

 throat dull white, thickly barred across with dusky brown, the 

 white spaces being wider on the abdomen and on the under tail- 

 coverts. 



Total length. Culmen. Wing. Tail. Tarsus, 



in. in. in. in. in. 



cJ 8 0-75 41 4'8 1-1 



^ 8 075 3-8 4-2 1-1 



5 8 0'8 3-9 4-4 1-0 



Hah. South Africa, from the Cape to the Congo. 

 Ohs. One female, apparently fully adult, shot at Bull's Post 

 in Great Namaqua Land, ilay 13, 1802, has the rump grey; 



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