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28. Telephonus jamesi^ sp. ii. (Plate X. fig. 2.) 



Upper parts brownish ash ; a broad black band down the 

 centre of the forehead, crown, and nape; a black band from 

 the lores through the eye to over the ear-coverts ; sides of 

 the forehead and crown fading almost into white, forming 

 an indistinct eyebrow ; wing-coverts and broad outer edges 

 to the quills chestnut, a few of the outer wing-coverts ashy 

 brown, externally margined with white ; edges of the wing 

 white, remainder of the quills dark brown j tail, two centre 

 feathers brownish ash obsoletely barred, remainder black, 

 with broad white ends, broadest towards the outer pair of 

 feathers, wdiich have also the greater portion of the end half 

 of the outer web white ; cheeks, throat, abdomen, and under 

 tail-coverts white, shading into pale brownish ash on the ear- 

 coverts, chest, and flanks ; under wing-coverts whitish ash ; 

 under surface of the quills ashy brown. Total length 7 inches, 

 culmen 0"65, wing 2'65, tail 3"5, tarsus 0"9. 



Hub. Somali-land. 



''Only met with on two occasions on the plateau. Iris 

 brown, with five beautiful white spots round the pupil ; bill 

 black ; feet grey." 



29. PrIONOPS POLIOCEPIIALUS. 



Lanius poliocephalus, Stanley in Salt^s Trav. Abyss. 1814, 

 App. p. 50. 



Prionops cristatus, Riipp. Neue Wirb. pi. 12. fig. 2, 



Prionops poliocephalus, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 109 (Usui) ; 

 Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 454 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. 

 p. 231; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1884, p. 120 (Shoa). 



Hab. E. Africa, from about 15° N. lat. to Usui in 3° S. lat. 



" Met with on three occasions in flocks on the tableland. 

 Iris and eye-wattles yellow, bill black, legs red.""' 



30. EUROCEPHALUS RUEPPELLI. 



Eurocephalus anguitimens, Rlipp. (nee Smith), Syst. Uebers. 

 1845, p. 53, pi. 27. 



Eurocephalus rueppelli, Bp. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1853, p. 440; 

 Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 487 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 iii. p. 280 ; Ilartl. Abh. nat. Ver. Brem. vii. 1881, p. 97 ; 



