in Uganda and on the Upper (,'on</o. 291 



may^ as a whole, have the lower back and rump somewhat 

 greyer than the East-African birds, but in one female from 

 Zanzibar these parts are quite as grey as in the western 

 form. Tlie birds available for examination from the East- 

 Afi'ican coast are, however, too few to enable one to draw 

 definite conclusions. 



Dryoscopus hamatus Hartl. 



Dryoscopus cubla hamatus Reich, ii. p. 594 (1903). 



No. 5127. a. ^. North-west of Lake Tanganyika, 

 4000 ft., 3rd Jan. 



Iris orange ; bill black ; feet grey. 



A male of the Lesser Puff-back Shrike apparently belongs 

 to this East-African form. It is distinguished from 

 D. cubla on account of the female having the lower back 

 and rump pure grey, not washed with olive-brown. Of 

 three females of tyjjical D. cubla from Swaziland in the 

 British Museum, two have the lower back slightly washed with 

 olive-brown, but the third shews hardly a trace of that colour 

 and is barely separable from females of D. hamatus. On 

 the whole, however, there is a distinct difference to be seen 

 in series of these birds from South and East Africa. 



Telephonus anchiet.e Boc. 



Pomatorhynchus anchietce Reich, ii. p. 553 (1903). 



Pomatorhynchus reichenowi (Neum.) ; Reich, ii. p. 552 

 (1903). 



No. 5136. a. ? . North-west of Lake Tanganyika, 

 4000 ft., 6th Jan. 



Iris mauve ; bill black ; feet grey. 



The female of this Bush-Shrike procured by Mr. Carruthers 

 has the upper tail-coverts black, fringed w^th sandy-brown. 

 In this respect it resembles a female example from Nyasaland, 

 but two others from the same country have the upper tail- 

 coverts sandy-brown, blackish only towards the base of the 

 feathers. This character is therefore unimportant, and 

 cannot be used in separating T. anchietce from T. reichenowi 

 Neum. The British Museum possesses typical examples of 

 T. reichenowi from Lamu, Dar-es-Salaam, and Pangani, and 



