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in amount to the outer one, which is entirely white, except for a little 
streak of dark along its base at the shaft; quills, with a broad basal portion 
of the primaries white and some pale inner edges to most of the quills; 
under wing-coverts white with a dusky patch next to the primaries ; axillaries 
black with some white outer edging; lower portion of cheeks and under 
parts white with a slight mottling of black on the thighs. ‘‘ Iris brown ; bill 
and feet black.” Total length 8-7, culmen 0:75, wing 3°8, tail 4-5, tarsus 1:05. 
Otjimbinque, 3, 7. 10. 64 (Andersson). 
Adult female. Differs in having some chestnut on the flanks. 
Immature. Similar to those of ZL. collaris, from which they differ in 
having a strongly marked whitish eyebrow. 
The Coroneted Fiscal Shrike ranges from Angola to the 
Orange River Colony, the Transvaal and Rhodesia. 
The most northern limit known for this species is Cas- 
sanga in 9° 30’ S. lat. between the Kuango and Quanza Rivers, 
where the type of Fiscus capelli was procured by Capello and 
Ivens. According to their notes it is there known to the 
natives as the “ Quiquecuria”’ or ‘‘ Quimbembe.” In Mos- 
samedes Anchieta has obtained examples on the Rio Coroca. 
It is generally distributed over German S.-W. Africa; Chap- 
man records this Shrike as common in Damaraland, and both 
he and Andersson observe that it entirely replaces L. collaris 
in that country, and according to the latter naturalist it is 
abundant in the northern parts of Great Namaqualand, in 
Damaraland, and the adjacent country to the east and north. 
Mr. Guillemard considers that it also replaces L. collaris to a 
certain extent, in the Orange River Colony and the country 
north of Kimberley. The type of the species was discovered, 
and has been well figured, by Sir Andrew Smith, who writes: 
“The first specimen we obtained was killed near Latakoo (not 
far from Kuruman), and many others were added to our collec- 
tion as we proceeded northward, although we never found the 
species common in any of the districts we visited. When 
L. subcoronatus appeared L. collaris ceased to be found, and we 
had every reason to believe that the former held to the north- 
