CORVINELLA CORVINA 237 
Corvinella corvina. 
Lanius corvinus, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. 2, p. 337 (1809) ex Levaill. ; 
Schiebel, J. f. O. 1906, pp. 179-181, pl. G. fig. 4. 
Corvinella corvina, Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii. p. 231 (1883); Shelley, B. Afr. 
i. No. 691 (1896) ; Reichen. Vég. Afr. ii. p. 629 (1903); Butler, Ibis 
1908, p. 225, 1909, p. 80 Bahr el Ghazal; Reichen. Mittl. Zool. 
Mus. Berl. v. p. 223 (1911) Camaroon. 
Lanius cissoides, Vieill. Ene. Méth. ii. p. 734 (1822). 
Lanius mellivorus, Licht, Verz. Doubl. p. 49 (1823) ex Levaill. 
Lanius flavirostris, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 219 (1837) Senegal. 
Corvinella corvina nubie, Filippi, Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1863, p. 290 
N. HE. Afr. 
Corvinella affinis, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 34 (1855) nom. nud.; id. N. O. 
Afr. p. 488 (1871) N. H. Afr. ; Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 692 (1896). 
Corvinella affinis togoensis, Neumann J. f. O. 1900 p. 263 Togoland. 
Le Grande Piegriéche, Levaill. Ois. d’Afr. ii. pl. 78 (1799). 
Adult. Upper parts brown, more or less shaded with rufous towards the 
edges of the feathers and ash on the mantle; feathers of the head, mantle 
and upper tail-coverts with broad blackish shaft-stripes; feathers of wings 
and tail with paler edges and a large patch of rufous on the basal half of the 
primaries; sides of head dark brown, with an imperfect broad buff eyebrow ; 
under parts buff, with black shaft-stripes, almost confined to the lower 
throat and chest, where often many of the feathers have irregular imperfect 
brown bars; flanks with a large deep chestnut patch, alike in both sexes, 
Tris hazel; bill yellow; tarsi and feet slate-colour with a yellowish tinge. 
Total length 12 inches, culmen 0°8, wing 4:7, tail 7:3, tarsus 1:25. Accra 
(Shelley). 
Young. Differs in having no dark shaft-stripes and the feathers of the 
lower throat, chest and flanks irregularly barred with brown. 
The Yellow-billed Long-tailed Shrike ranges from the 
northern side of Victoria Nyanza throughout the White Nile 
district and into Senegambia. 
The species is represented in the British Museum, from 
the Gambia (Quin and Maloney), Sierra Leone (Fraser), 
Fantee (Ussher), Accra (Shelley), Gambaga (Northcott), Dem 
Suleiman in the Bahr el Ghazal (Bohndorff), Soudan (Knob- 
lecker) and Uganda (Jackson). These specimens show that 
a considerable variation in the bars and stripes on the breast 
