Birds of Gazaland. r>9 



of 7\7 inches, ranging from 6-9 to I'A-. The bill is bhick, 

 blackish in the female, with a light grey base to the lower 

 mandible, the feet are light blue-grey, and the iris bright 

 brown-madder (in one female deep sienna-red). The stomachs 

 examined have contained large larvae, beetles, hymenoptera, 

 and a mantis. 



81. Laxiakius olivaceus. Olive Bush-Shrike. 



Rh., P. Though by no means so plentiful there as 

 L. quadricolor , L. sidji/nireipecfus, or L. bertrandi, this Bush- 

 Shrike is not uufrequently seen in the lower Jihu moving 

 about in the bush or flying across open spaces. 



On August 19th I secured a female in my Solarium hedge 

 on the outskirts of Chirinda, and I had previously once 

 noted it on the outskirts of Chipete. The average length 

 in the flesh of four of these Shrikes was 7'7 inches, with a 

 variation of from 7"4 to 8*2. Bill: upper mandible and 

 point of lower dusky or blackish, rest of gonys pale horn- 

 colour. Feet light blue-grey with a tinge of flesh-colour. 

 The stomachs contained a large tarantula, larvse (in one case 

 nine), beetles, and grasshoppers. 



82. Laniakius mannixgi. Manning^s Bush-Shrike. 

 Malaconotus manmngi Shelleyj Ibis, 1899, p. 314. 



Rh. On the 19tli August, 1906, 1 watched a pair of these 

 handsome Shrikes moving about quietly amongst the foliage 

 on the outskirts of Chirinda and secured, the female; on the 

 27th of the same month I observed a third at the same spot, 

 and on the 13th of April of this year Odendaal shot a fine 

 male about 200 yards higher up on the forest-outskirts. 



The hen-bird measured 7 '7 inches in the flesh, the male 

 7*35 ; bill in each case black : irides of the former pale 

 broken crimson-pink, feet leaden-grey ; irides of the latter 

 a pretty shade of deep burnt-carmine, feet bright blue-grey 

 with dull creamy soles. The stomach of the first contained 

 three larvse, a large wasp, and beetles. This is the Nyassa- 

 land form of L. abbotti (Richm.), recorded now for the first 

 time from South Africa. 



