LANIOTURDUS TORQUATUS. 351 
nut pectoral band instead of a black one. Total length, 4 inches ; 
culmen, 0°5; wing, 2°05; tail, 1:6; tarsus, 0°65. 
338. LANIOTURDUS TORQUATUS. White-tailed Flycatcher. 
This fine species of Flycatcher was first described by Mr. Water- 
house from specimens brought by Sir J. Alexander from Damara 
Land, where Mr. Andersson afterwards met with it. It seems to 
be entirely confined to South-western Africa, haying been found 
only in Damara Land, and at Biballa in Mossamedes. Mr. Anders- 
son gives the following account of the species :—‘“ I met with this 
fine Flycatcher in the south of Damara Land; and I also found it 
very common, and in many cases paired, about the Omaruru River 
in October and November. In the latter locality it was very tame, 
and I could procure almost any number of specimens ; but in the 
former it was shy and very restless, seeking the thickest part of the 
tree or bush on which it might chance to be perched immediately 
that it found itself pursued, and making its escape from the side 
opposite to that on which its pursuer might be watching for it, not, 
however, flying far, but settling on the nearest tree on which it 
deemed itself secure. This Flycatcher presents a pleasing appear- 
ance on the wing, although its flight is slow and apparently laborious ; 
it is gregarious in its habits, and seeks its food amongst dwarf 
vegetation, and also on the ground. I love this little bird, it is so 
odd-looking, and often enlivens with its quaint appearance and 
movements an otherwise dreary and monotonous solitude. It has a 
very clear and plaintive call-note ; but generally its notes are queru- 
lous, and at times not unlike the distant call of a Corncrake. The 
tail feathers in this species are of extraordinary stiffness.” 
Adult male.—Head black, including the lores and ear-coverts, the 
latter produced backwards along the sides of the neck: forehead 
and superciliary streak (not extending beyond the eye), cheeks, 
throat, sides of neck, and a large nuchal patch white: back dark 
grey, the rump mottled with white: upper tail-coverts black: tail 
pure white, the two central feathers longitudinally marked with 
black: upper wing-coyerts black, the primary coverts white at tip, 
as also the inner greater coverts, which form a conspicuous patch 
on the wing; quills black tipped with white, the secondaries more 
broadly, the primaries white at base of inner web, and the outer 
