254 FISCUS SUBCORONATUS 
type was discovered by Fraser in the Gold Coast Colony, 
where I found it very common, constantly to be seen pro- 
minently exposed on the top of a bush or anthill. It was 
equally plentiful at Cape Coast Castle as well as in the forest 
at Abrobonko and at Accra. 
Boyd Alexander procured specimens at Krachi and Pong ; 
he writes (Ibis, 1902, p. 310): “A common species from 
Krachi down the coast, but not met with in the Hinterland.” 
Young individuals were found at the end of May. It has 
been recorded at several places in Togoland, and was obtained 
at Abeokuta in southern Nigeria by Robin. There are speci- 
mens from Kabinda in Portuguese Congo (Sperling) and from 
Kambembe (Monteiro) and M’Dalla Tando (Ansorge) in 
northern Angola, in the British Museum. South of this it 
seems to be replaced by F’. swbhcoronatus. 
The British Museum contains examples from the following 
localities: Sierra Leone—Bo (Kemp); Gold Coast Colony— 
Accra (Smith) Cape Coast Castle and Abrobonko (Shelley) ; 
S. Nigeria—Abeokuta (Robin); Portuguese Congo—Cabinda 
(Sperling) ; Angola (Monteiro and Ansorge). 
Fiscus subcoronatus. 
Lanius subcoronatus, Smith, Ill. Zool. S. Afr. Av. pl. 68 (1841) Latakoo ; 
Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii. p. 260 (1883); Ogilvie-Grant, Nov. Zool. 
1902, p. 466; Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 611 (1903); Shortridge 
Journ. 8. Afr. Orn. Union 1905 p.22 Hanover; Schiebel, J. f. O. 1906, 
p- 183, pl. 4, fig. 2; Swynnerton, Ibis, 1908, p. 48 Gazaland ; Chubb, 
Ibis, 1909, p. 160 Bulawayo. 
Fiscus subcoronatus, Shelley, B. Afr.i. No. 694 (1896); Clarke, Ibis, 
1904, p. 526 Bloemfontein. 
Lanius capelli, Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1879, p. 93 Cassanga ; Reichen. Vég. 
Afr. ii. p. 611 (1903) ; Schiebel, J. f. O. 1906, p. 183. 
Adult male. Upper parts mostly sooty black; front of forehead and a 
broadish eyebrow white; scapulars pure white and some white terminal mar- 
gins to the quills; lower back and upper tail-coverts grey fading into white 
on the rump; five pairs of outer tail-feathers with white ends increasing 
