22. LANIUS. 



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p. 487 (1869-71) ; SJmrpe ^- Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. i. p. 308 ; 



SharjK, Ibis, 1870, p. 19 ; id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 60 ; id. P. Z. S. 



1873, p. 717 ; Beichenoic, Corr. Afrik. Gesellsch. 1874, p. 179. 

 Collvrio suiithii, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 391, no. 5944 (1869) ; Bocage, 



Jom. Lisb. 1870, p. 343. 

 Fiscus smithii, Brekm, Habesch, p. 310 ; Bocage, Orn, Angola, 



p. 210. 



Adult male. Distribution of colours exactly the same as in 

 L. humeralis, from which L. smithii, besides its smaller size, differs 

 merely in two points : first, the head, hind neck, and mantle are 

 constantly glossy black ; secondly, most of the upper tail-coverts 

 have their terminal halves white, forming a white patch across the 

 rump. 



Adult female. Like the male but less glossy, some of the feathers 

 of the flanks and sides of breast washed with chestnut-colour. 



Youiiy birds like those of L. humeralis. 



Hah. Western Africa, from the Congo river to the Gold Coast. 



As the Congo specimens form a perfect link in size between the 

 eastern L. humeralis and the western L. smithii, the latter cannot 

 be considered more than a still more brightlj' coloured representative 

 of the L. collaris group in Tropical Western Africa ; in other words, 

 L. Jiumeralis gradually passes into a more intensely black and purer 

 white-coloured and somewhat smaller form towards the western 

 parts of Tropical Africa. 



a. [ J ] ad. sk. 



b, c, d. [ c? ] ad. sk. 



e. [cJ] ad.sk. 



f. Imm. moulting sk. 



g. h. [ (5 ] ad. sk. 

 i. Juv. sk. 



k,l. Imm. moul ting sk. 



m. [ (5 ] ad. sk. 



n. Imm. moulting sk. 



0. [cJ]ad. sk. 



p, q. 6 ad. ; r. $ 



ad. sk. 

 8. [ $ ] ad. sk. 



West Afiica. 

 Fantee. 



W. Africa. 



Ashantee. 



Fantee. 



Fantee. 



Fantee. 



Accra (Smith), 



Abeokuta. 



Abeokuta. 



Congo. 



Angola. 



L. Fraser, Esq. [C.]. (Type 



of species.) 

 F. D. Godman and 0. Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 

 Pm'cliased. 

 J. Gould, Esq. 

 E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 A. Swanzy, Esq. [P.]. 



E. B. Shai'pe, Esq. 



F. Xicholson, Esq. [P, 

 F. Nicholson, Esq. [P. 

 Commander E. M. Sper- 



ling [P.]._ 

 J. J. Mouteu'o, Esq. [C.]. 



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