LANIUS SUBCORONATUS. 377 
the inner webs; “bill black: feet greyish black; iris black” 
(Andersson). Total length, 8-5 inches; culmen, 0°7; wing, 3°9; 
tail, 4:2; tarsus, 1°1. 
Adult female.—Similar to the male but with chestnut flanks. 
Total length, 9 inches; wing, 3°7; tail, 4°3; tarsus, 1°05. 
The young bird has a rufous tinge throughout, darkest on the back, 
and minutely crossed with small dark brown bars. The edges of 
the wing and tail feathers are very rufous. 
Fig. le Vaill. Ois. d’ Afr. pls. 61, 62. 
3860. Lanivs suscoronatus, Smith. Coronneted Shrike. 
This species is nearly allied to ZL. collaris, but is distinguished at 
once by its broad white eyebrow; it so closely resembles the last 
mentioned bird in all its habits, that it was not found to be distinct 
until one was accidentally killed by the members of Sir A. Smith’s 
expedition. It was first seen by them at Latakoo, and we have 
received it from Kuruman, where it was procured by Mr. R. Moffat. 
Mr. Andersson gives the following note :—“‘ This Shrike is common 
in the northern parts of Great Namaqua Land, and also in Damara 
Land, and the parts adjacent to the east and uorth. Its mode of 
flight, manners, and habits, are identical with those of the pre- 
ceding species.” 
Three specimens have been also obtained by Anchieta near the 
mouth of the River Coroca, in Mossamedes. 
Mr. Guillemard considers that the present bird replaces the 
Fiskal Shrike to a certain extent in the Orange Free State and 
the country north of the Diamond Fields. Mr. T. Ayres has shot 
it on one occasion near Potchefstroom on the 23rd of March. 
Adult male.—Aboye, slaty-blackish; lores and a broad eyebrow, 
white ; feathers in front of and round the eye, dusky ; ear-coverts 
blackish, darker than the head; scapulars, white; wing-coverts and 
quills dark brown, the primary-coverts and secondaries narrowly 
tipped with white, the primaries white at the base, forming a large 
alar speculum; lower back and upper tail-coverts grey, the rump 
white ; tail feathers blackish, the four middle ones entirely so, the 
next slightly tipped with white, these white tips increasing in 
extent towards the outermost, and running along the outer edge of 
the feather, until in the last the white occupies the outer web and 
the terminal half of the feather; cheeks and entire under surface of 
