688 Mr. D. A. Bannerman on a Collection of 



b. [ ? ?] Kikuyu Forest, 1st July, 1902. (No. 370.) 

 The male bird from Nairobi is in a very worn condition, 

 ■while the example from the Kikuyu Forest, which is probably 

 an adult female, is in freshly moulted plumage. 



[These Tits were met with in the open parts of the forest. 

 —A. B. P.] 



45. Telephonus erythropterus Shaw. 

 Pomatorhynchus seneyalus Reich, ii. p. 547. 

 Telephonus erythropterus Shaw ; Grant, Trans. Zool. Soc. 



xix. p. 337 (1910). 



a. <$ . Takaungu, 1st April. (Xo. 162.) 



The specimen has the continuous buff eyebrow-stripe 

 characteristic of this form. 



[Common all along the coast. At Mombasa, Shimoni, 

 and Takaungu it was found in the more open bush, and 

 frequented the native gardens. At Nairobi it was rare. — 

 A. B. P.] 



46. Lanius caudatus Cab. 



Lanius caudatus Reich, ii. p. 613 ; Grant, Nov. Zool. ix. 

 p. 468. 



a. [ ? .] Mombasa, 8th Sept., 1900. (No. 6.) 

 &.[?.] Malindi, 21st Feb., 1901. (No. 65.) 

 The specimens of these fine Shrikes are both in the freshly 

 moulted plumage of the adult female, the sex of the bird ob- 

 tained at Mombasa (marked male) having doubtless been 

 wrongly determined. As Mr. Ogilvie-Grant points out in 

 his paper, the adult female in freshly moulted plumage 

 differs from the male in having a large patch of dark chestnut 

 feathers on each side of the body. 



[I found these Shrikes very common on the telegraph- 

 wires near Malindi. At one spot I noticed fully fifty of 

 them perched on the wires within a distance of three 

 hundred yards. On the mainland, near Mombasa, they 

 were scarce, and at Takaungu none were observed. They 

 seem to prefer fairly open country, and to keep in small 

 parties of from six to ten. — A. B. P.J 



