14G BIRDS OF DAMAEA LAND. 



ticularly shy, is somewhat difficult to obtain, from the 

 nature of its resorts — also that it utters pleasant ringing 

 notes. 



The bill and claws are black, the legs and feet 

 brownish. 



[Mr. Andcrsson's last collection contained two examples of 

 tliis Shrike, one from Lake Ngami, the other from the river 

 Cunene : in the first of these the rectrices were wholly black, as 

 is usual in this species ; in the second (a male, obtained on the 

 25th of June, 1867) they are all black except the exterior pair, 

 which have a very narrow white tip to the outer web, a variation 

 which I have not met with in any other individuals of this 

 species. Both of these specimens are now in the collection of 

 Mr. R. B. Sharpe.— Ed.] 



182. LaniariuS Sticturus, Finsch & Hartl. Chapman's Shrike. 



Laniarius sticturus, Finsch & Ilartlanb's Vogel Ost-Afi-ika's, p. 342, 



pi. 5. fig. 1. 

 Tchagra stictunis, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 6042. 



[As the type specimen of this bird is stated by Drs. Finsch 

 and Hartlaub, loc. cit., to have been brought from Lake Ngami 

 by Mr. Chapman, I here include it ; but I have not found any 

 specimen of it in Mr. Andersson's collections, nor any reference 

 to it in his notes. — En.] 



183. DryOSCOpUS Cubla (Shaw). Cubla Shrike. 



Le Cubla, Levaillant's Ois. d'Ai'r. pi. 72. 



Dryoscopus cubla, Strickland & Sclater, Birds Damar., Contr. Orn. 



1852, p. 145. 

 Laniarius cubla, Layard's Cat. No. 320. 

 Dryoscopus cubla, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. G018. 

 „ „ Sharpe 's Cat. No. 454. 



I have observed this Shrike very sparingly in Damara 

 Land, where I met with it first at Okamabute, and 



