LANIARIUS POLIOCEPHALUS. é 387 
a bright yellow; head and hind-neck dull ashy grey, as also the ear- 
coverts and sides of neck; a broad loral streak of bright yellow 
drawn from the base of the nostrils and forming a distinct eyebrow; 
B eyelid blackish ; in front of the eye a distinct black spot; cheeks 
and throat bright yellow, succeeded by a broad black collar running 
across the hinder part of the cheeks to below the eye; rest of under 
_ surface of body yellow, the flanks with greyish bases, imparting a 
grey shade to this portion of the body, the longer ones on each 
side of the rump creamy buff at their ends; under wing-coverts 
dull olivaceous, the lower series ashy like the lower surface of the 
quills; “ bill black ; legs and toes lead-colour ; iris reddish brown ” 
. (Andersson). Total length, 8°5 inches; culmen, 0°95; wing, 39; 
tail, 3°8; tarsus, 1:3. ~ 
Adult female.—Similar in colour to the male. Wing, 3°75 inches; 
tail, 3°9; tarsus, 1°35. 
Young.—Duller coloured than the adult, the head greenish like 
the rest of the upper surface; throat and chest ashy; the ear- 
coverts ashy grey ; rest of under surface yellowish buff, deeper 
orange buff on the under tail-coverts ; no pectoral collar. 
Fig. Le Vaill. Ois. d’Afr. IL. pl. 67. 
368. Lantarius poLiocerHatus, Licht. 
Large Grey-headed Bush Shrike. 
* — Laniarius icterus, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 164. 
_ This species is often known by the name of Laniarius olivaceus 
of Vieillot, but inasmuch as Shaw had already conferred this name 
upon Le Vaillant’s “ Oliva,” the present species must be called 
po. poliocephalus (Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 45). It may be mentioned 
that specimens from South Africa are rather more orange on the 
breast than others from Western or North-Eastern Africa. 
This is a rare bird in collections from South Africa, arising more 
perhaps from its shy and retiring habits than from its actual 
‘scarcity in the haunts which it frequents, as it is rarely seen out of 
the densest bush. Mr. H. Bowker has sent it from the country 
beyond the Kei, Captain Harford from Natal, and specimens have 
‘' procured near Grahamstown. The stomach of one examined 
by Captain Harford “ contained beetles and insecis.” 
_ Mr. Henry Bowker writes, “I send you the skin of a bird I shot 
. ‘the other day on the ‘ Kwelega:’ they are common in some parts, 
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