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No. 155. S ad. Nandi, 6500 feet, July Q>, 1896. Iris 

 brown ; bill and feet black. 



No. 164. ? ad. Nandi, 6500 feet, July 7, 1896. This 

 bird has a patch of russet-brown under the wings, not 

 observable when they are closed. 



No. 994. ? ad. Nandi, 6500 feet, April 15, 1898. Iris 

 brown ; bill and feet brown. 



No. 1238. S ad. Nandi, 6500 feet, June 26, 1898. Iris 

 brown; bill and feet black. 



[By some mistake the typical specimen described by me 

 in 'The Ibis ' for 1891 (p. 596) was recorded as an adult/em«/e. 

 This was a misprint for " male,^^ and it will be seen that the 

 only bird then known was a male. 



Mr. Jackson now sends the female, whicii is like the male, 

 but differs in one noteworthy respect, in that it has a chestnut 

 patch on the flanks, as in the species of Fiscus. Wing 3'5 

 inches. This character and its white-tipped tail-feathers 

 suggest that it may more reasonably be placed in the latter 

 sub-genus than in Lanius, and in this case its name would 

 be Fiscus mackinnoni. — R. B. S.] 



132. Lanius collurio. 



Lanius collurio Linn.; Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 595; Reichen. 

 Vog. deutsch. Ost-Afr. p. 457 (1894) ; Hinde, Ibis, 1898, 

 p. 580 (Machako's) ; O. Neum. J. f. O. 1900, p. 265. 



Enneoctonus collurio Shelley, B. Africa, i. p. 53 (1896). 



Nos. 104, 105. c? ? . Ndeva, Teita, April 7, 1892. Bill 

 black at tip, horn-blue at base ; feet dark slate-colour ; iris 

 brown. 



This bird was very plentiful in Teita in April 1892, when 

 it was doubtless on its way north to its breeding-grounds. 

 It was also very abundant at Machako's, some 200 miles 

 further north, in April 1889. As I noticed a great number of 

 pairs, I was inclined to think that certain individuals were 

 remaining to breed, especially as the country was interspersed 

 with thick thorn-bushes and well adapted for the purpose. 



[I think that it is unlikely that L. collurio would breed in 

 East Africa. The birds were probably only on their north- 



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