244 FISCUS NUBICUS 
already alluded to as obtained by the Ruwenzori expedition, 
while at Tring there are a number of examples collected by 
Grauer in the Lake Kivu district of German East Africa. 
Fiscus nubicus. 
Lanius nubicus, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 47 (1823) Nubia; Dresser, 
B. Eur. iii. p. 417, pl. 153 (1871); Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii. p. 282 
(1883); Sharpe, P. Z. 8. 1901, vol. ii. p. 615 Magois Country ; 
Ogilvie-Grant, Nov. Zool. ix. p. 464 (1902); Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. 
p. 612 (1903); Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 149; 1901, p. 288 
Abyssinia ; 1902, p. 416; 1904, p. 266 Dankil; 1907, p. 591 White 
Nile ; Butler, Ibis, 1905, p. 328, 1908, p. 225, 1909, pp. 80, 394 
Egyptian Sudan ; Schiebel, J. f. O. 1906, p. 197, pl. H, figs. 6, 7; 
Zedlitz, J. f. O. 1910, p. 803 Hritrea ; Koenig, Ber. V. Intern. Orn. 
Kongr. 1910, p. 511 Khartwm. 
Phoneus nubicus, Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 707 (1896). 
Lanius personatus, Temm. Pl. Col. iii. pl. 256, fig. 2 (1824) Akaba, 
Arabia. 
Lanius leucometopon, Miihle, Beit. Orn. Griechenl. p. 78 (1844) 
Greece, 
Lanius leucopterus and albicollis, Heugl. Orn. N. O. Afr. p. 485 (1871), 
nom. nud. 
Adult male. A broad forehead and eyebrows white, the former tinged 
with rufous-buff, mostly towards the bill; crown, hinder half of neck, entire 
back, upper tail-coverts and the six centre tail-feathers glossy jet-black ; 
next pair of tail-feathers black with white ends; the outer two pairs are 
white, with black shafts and some black on their inner margins; scapulars 
almost entirely white; wings mostly black, with some whitish edges to the 
feathers, broadest on the inner secondaries; a broad basal portion of the 
nine long primaries white ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white, with a 
dusky patch next to the primaries; cheek below the gape and the lower 
parts generally white, with a rufous tinge down the sides of the throat and 
across the crop, shading into pale cinnamon on the flanks. Ivis brown; bill 
and feet black. Total length 7-7 inches, culmen 0:55, wing 3°6, tail 3:6, 
tarsus 0°9. Hgypt, g 25. 2. 68 (Shelley). 
Adult female. Differs in the dark parts being more ashy and the under 
parts paler. Wing 3-45. Egypt, 2 25. 2. 70 (Shelley). 
Immature. Differs in having black bars scattered mostly over the upper 
parts and sides of body; wing-coverts and secondaries with broad buff outer 
edges ; no rufous on under parts. Smyrna, 20.7. 71 (Kriiper). 
