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No. 1400. S ^^- River Ja, Feb. 9, 1906. 



No. 1465. ? ad. „ Feb. 26, 1906. Eggs begin- 



ning to form. 



No. 1848. c? ad. River Ja, July 17, 1906. 



No. 1999. ? ad. Bitje, River Ja, Oct. 25, 1906. 



[This is the only Shrike that T have ever seen in the 

 depths of the forest, but it prefers the more open places 

 and clearings. — G. L. B.] 



NiCATOR VIREO. 



Nicator vireo Cab. ; Reichenow, t. c. p. 555 (1903) ; 

 Sharpe, Haiid-l. iv. p. 299 (1903). 



No. 75. S • River Ja, Feb. 1903. 



No. 1423. S ad. River Ja, Feb. 16, 1906. Testes rather 

 large. 



No. 1556. S ad. River Ja, March 16, 1906. 



No. 2028. ? ad. Bitje, River Ja, Oct. 31, 1906. 



POMATOKHYNCHUS FRATER. 



Pomaturhynchus australis frater Reichenow, J. f. O. 1902, 

 p. 258; id. Vog. Afrikas, ii. p. 546 (1903). 



Pomatorhynchus frater Sharpe, Hand-1. B. iv. p. 300 (1903). 



a. ? ad. Efulen, March 21, 1902. 



Nos. 561 706. S ; 585, 927, 1458. ? ad. River Ja, May 

 1904 to Feb. 1906. 



No. 2048. ? . Bitje, River Ja, Nov. 5, 1906. 



Since I last made some notes on the Tschagra Bush- 

 Shrikes ('Ibis,' 1901, p. 45), Dr. Reichenow has published 

 his account of the genus Pomatorhynchus in his ' Vogel 

 Afrikas.' Of P. australis (Smith) he now recognises six 

 races, as follows : — 



P. australis. — Brown head, flanked by a broad streak of 

 black on each side. Bill dark horn-grey, the lower man- 

 dible entirely pale, or at least at the base. 



Hab. S. Africa, north to Beuguela. 



Prof. Reichenow has apparently only seen young birds, 

 which in all the forms have a pale under mandible. The 

 majority of our specimens have both mandibles I)lack, 

 including one of Sir Andrew Smith's types. This character 



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