242 FISCUS MACKINNONI 
b. Base of tail-feathers white; wing about 4°5 inches, outer 
half of scapulars black. 
ct. Entire hinder half of neck and the crown black . « Cabanisi. 
d+. Crown and back of neck grey, a black band from the 
ear-coverts down the neck; more than the basal half 
of the tail white Sn Tie (eh A) ey eee Bel eh ee mC ULOMIULSE 
Fiscus mackinnoni. 
Lanius mackinnoni, Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, pp. 444, 596, pl. 13 Kavirondo ; 
Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 700 (1896) ; Jackson, Ibis, 1901, p. 34 Nandi ; 
Ogilvie Grant, Nov. Zool. 1902, p. 468; Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 617 
(1903) ; Schiebel, J. f. O. 1906, p. 187, pl. G. fig. 6, pl. H. fig. 1; 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 328 Camaroon; Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 36; 
Ogilvie-Grant, Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 345 (1910) Rwwenzori ; 
Reichen. Deutsch. Zentr. Afr. Exped. iii. p. 315 (1910); id. Mittl. 
Zool. Mus. Berl. v. p. 83 Rio Benito. 
Adult male. Upper parts mostly grey; scapulars white with the base of 
the feathers grey ; wings black with the under wing-coverts mottled white 
and dusky grey and a silvery grey wash on the inner webs of the quills; 
tail black with moderate white ends to all but the centre feathers; a broad 
white eyebrow extending round the front of the forehead, a broad black band 
on sides of head including the lores and the upper two thirds of the ear- 
coverts ; remainder of head and the under parts white. ‘Iris hazel; bill and 
legs black.” Total length 8:4 inches, culmen 0:7, wing 3-4, tail 3-7, tarsus 
0-9. Bugemaia (Jackson). 
Adult female. Differs in having a patch of deep chestnut on the flanks. 
Immature male. Like the adult’ male with no chestnut on the flanks, 
but some brown and blackish bars on the head, back and upper tail-coverts ; 
a few narrow brown edges to the wing-coverts and quills and a few dusky 
bars on the flanks. Efulen 3 20. 5. 03 (Bates). 
Mackinnon’s Grey Shrike ranges over Equatorial Africa 
from Camaroon and Spanish Guinea to Nandi in British East 
Africa. ; 
In Camaroon the species has been procured by Dr. Preuss 
at Buea, by Mr. Bates at Efulen and several other localities, 
by Mr. Sjésted at Itoki and by Mr. Zenker at Jaundi and 
Bipinde. Between the Albert Edward Nyanza and the 
Victoria Nyanza it has been met with by Emin and Stuhl- 
mann in Rubanga and Bukoba. The Ruwenzori expedi- 
