Collection of Birds from Somali-land. 40 1 



the water-courses, Male — iris, bill, and feet slaty blue ; 

 female — iris red, bill and feet black." 



24. BUCHANGA ASSIMILIS. 



Corvus assimilis, Bechst. Lath. Allg. Uebers. Vog. ii, 

 p. 562. 



EdoUus lugubris, Hempr. & Ehr. Symb. Phys. 1828, pi. 8. 

 fig. 3. 



Dicrurus lugubris, Speke, Ibis, 1860, p. 247 (Somali). 



Dicrurus divaricatus, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 422; Finsch 

 & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 323; Fischer, J. f. O. 1885, p. 131. 



Buchanga assimilis, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 247. 



Ilab. The whole of Africa south of about 16° N. lat. 



" Common throughout the country. Iris red, bill and legs 

 black.^' 



25. Lanius dorsalis. 



Lanius [Fiscus) dorsalis, Cab. J. f. O. 1878, pp. 205, 225 

 (Ndi). 



Lanius dorsalis, Oustalet in Revoil's Faun, et Flor. Co- 

 malis, Ois. p. 10. 



Hab. E. Africa, Somali to Ndi. 



Upper half of the head and hinder half of the neck black ; 

 back and scapulars grey, fading into white towards the ends 

 of the scapulars and on the tail-coverts ; tail, four centre 

 feathers entirely black, the remainder black with broad white 

 ends and an entirely white outer web to the outer pair of 

 feathers; underparts white; axillaries black; under wing- 

 coverts white, with a large dusky patch ; quills black, with 

 about the basal half of the primaries white ; a dark rufous 

 patch on the sides of the chest (a sexual character only) ; iris 

 brown; bill and legs black. Total length 8'2 inches, culmen 

 0"65, wing 3'75, tail 3*6, tarsus 1*1. 



This species is nearly allied to L. antinorii, Salvad., from 

 which it differs in the scapulars being grey, not white ; the 

 secondaries entirely black, not tipped with white ; a less 

 amount of white on the two pair of outer tail-feathers ; the 

 axillaries being black, not white ; and it is also slightly 

 smaller. This comparison is taken from Mr. Gadow's descrip- 



