FISCUS COLLARIS 247 
Fiscus newtoni. (PI. 53, fig. 2.) 
Lanius (Fiscus) newtoni, Bocage, Journ. Lisb. 1891, p. 79 St. Thomas 
Island. 
Fiscus newtoni, Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 696 (1896). 
Lanius newtoni, Grant, Noy. Zool. 1902, p. 467; Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. 
p. 607 (1903) ; Schiebel, J. f. O. 1906, 187. 
Adult.—Upper parts including the entire back and upper tail-coverts jet 
black with a greenish-blue gloss; broad ends to the outer scapulars white ; 
five outer pairs of tail-feathers with white ends, the white not extending 
down the outer webs but covering nearly the whole of the inner web of 
the exterior pair; wings, above entirely black, beneath there are broad 
whitish inner margins to the quills, the coverts white with a dusky patch 
next to the primaries; axillaries white with dusky bases to the feathers; 
cheeks below the gape, and the under parts generally white. Iris brown; 
bill black, feet blackish brown. Total length 8-0 inches, culmen 0°65, 
wing 3°7, tail 4-6, tarsus 0-95. St. Thomas Island, ¢ —. 9. 90 (Newton). 
Whether the female has the tawny patches on the flanks characteristic 
of most of Fiscal Shrikes is uncertain. Nothing is mentioned by Bocage in 
the original description on this point. 
A young bird is brownish black above, below yellowish; wings and tail 
dusky ; tail feathers with yellowish tips (Bocage). 
Newton’s Fiscal Shrike is confined to the Island of St. 
Thomas. Mr. Alfred Newton, its discoverer, collected five 
specimens on this island, where it is probably not rare, and it 
is represented in.the British Museum by one of his examples. 
This appears to be a male, and it, together with another 
male, a female, and two young birds, were collected at 
S. Miguel and on the Rio Quiga on the west coast of the 
Island. The female hardly differs from the male according 
to Bocage except for the purer white of its underparts. 
Fiscus collaris. 
Lanius collaris, Linn. 8. N. i. p. 185 (1766) Cape of Good Hope ; Gadow, 
Cat. B. M. viii. p. 255 (1883); Grant, Nov. Zool. 1902, p. 446; 
Stark and Sclater, Birds S. A. ii. p. 6 (1901); Reichen. Vég. 
Afr. ii. p. 607 (1903); Shortridge, Journ. S. A. Orn. Union, 1905, 
p- 22 Hanover ; W. Sclater, Ibis, 1911, p. 283 Cape Colony. 
Lanius collaris collaris, Schiebel, J. f. O. 1906, p. 185. 
