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4- — FiSCUS COI.LARIS HUMER ALIS (StaNLEY). 



Range. — Abyssinia, Kenya Colony, Tanganyika Territory, 

 Uganda, Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Natal. 



Tvpe locality. — Chelicut, Abyssinia. 



5. — FiSCUS COLLARIS SUBCORONATUS (SmITH). 



Range. — S. Angola, Damaraland, Great Namaqualand, Orange 

 River Colony, Transvaal, Southern Rhodesia, British Bechuana- 

 land. 



Type locality. — Latakoo near Kuruman, British Bechuanaland. 



6. — FiSCUS COLLARIS MARWITZI (ReICHw). 



Range. — Nyasa-Tanganyika Plateau. 



Type locality. — Uhehe, Tanganyika Territory. 



Observation. — For the distinguishing characters of thèse East 

 African races see Sclater in Shelleys Birds of Africa, V, 1912, 



(Not a very common bird, usually noticed on some bush in the 

 open country. — W. P. L.) 



Dryoscopus gambensis gambensis. 



Lanius gambensis Licht., Verz. Uoubl., 1823, p. 48. — Type 

 locality : Senegambia. 



Both Mr Kemp and Mr Lowe secured spécimens of theGambian 

 PufF-back Shrike in Southern Nigeria, the former collector at 

 Burutu in April and at Agoulerie in July and August 1905, the 

 latter at Iju water-works in January and February 1920. Previously 

 to that tue bird had been obtained by Robin at Abeokuta. N° 265 

 obtained by Mr Lowe is in remarkably interesting plumage. It is 

 a maie and is changing from the immature dress which resembles 

 the adult female. It is in course of assuraing the blue-black crown, 

 but still bas the underparts strongly washed with tawny orange. 



From Northern Nigeria we hâve spécimens from the Niger 



