136 BIRDS OF DAMABA LAND. 



This Shrike is pretty common in Great Namaqua and 

 Damara Land, as also in the Okavango region, where it 

 breeds. It is migratory, and returns to Damara Land 

 at the approach of the rainy season. It watches from 

 some elevated position for its prey, which usually consists 

 of insects. 



The iris is very dark brown. 



Measurements of a male : — 



in. lin. 



Entire length 7 5 



Length of folded wing 3 9 



„ tarsus 10 



„ middle toe 7 



„ tail 3 2 



„ bill 10 



[The type specimen of Messrs. Strickland and Sclater's 

 Enneoctonus Anderssoni, which I have examined at the Museum 

 of Zoology at Cambridge^ appears to me to be an immature male 

 of the present species^ though in an unusual and^ probably, 

 exceptional state of plumage. — Ed.] 



173. FiscUS COllaris (Linn.). Fiskal Shrike. 



Lc Fiscal, Levaillant's Ois. d'Afr. pis. Gl & G2. 

 Lanius cuUaris, Sti'ickland & Sclater, Birds Daniar., Contr. Urn. 

 1852, p. 144. 

 „ „ Layard's Cat. No. 306. 



Fiscus collaris, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 5942. 



This Shrike is common in the southern and middle 

 parts of Great Namaqua Land, but further north it is 

 replaced by Lanius subcoronatiis ; indeed, where the 

 one species ceases, the other may be said to begin, as, to 

 the best of my belief, L. collaris does not exist in any 

 numbers where L. subcoronatus is found. South of 

 Namaqua Land th(^ P^iskal Shrike is very abundant, and 



