258 FISCUS SOMALICUS 
the end of the inner web white. Iris brown; bill and feet black. Total length 
8:2 inches, culmen 0°7, wing 3°5, tail 4:6, tarsus 1:0. North Nyasaland, 
—. 9. 04 (A. Sharpe). 
The female, according to Reichenow, has the tawny flank patches 
characteristic of all the Fiscal Shrikes. 
Marwitz’s Fiscal Shrike ranges over the Nyasa-Tangan- 
yika Plateau. 
Mr. Marwitz, who discovered the species in the Uhehe 
country, obtained specimens -at Ngomingi in July and August, 
and in the British Museum there is a fine example of this 
rare Shrike obtained by Sir Alfred Sharpe north of Lake Nyasa 
in September, 1904. 
This species appears to bear the same relation to F’. smuthi 
which F’. subcoronatus does to F’. collaris or F. humeralis, and 
as compared with F’. swhcoronatus differs in its slightly smaller 
dimensions, its darker beak and in having a little more black 
on the outer tail-feathers. 
Fiscus somalicus. 
Lanius somalicus, Hartl. Ibis, 1859, p. 342 Bender Gam. 
Lanius antinorii, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genova, 1878, p. 316 Afmu, 
Danikil coast; Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii, p. 255 (1883); Sharpe, 
P.Z.S. 1901, ii. p. 615 Lake Stephanie; Ogilvie-Grant, Noy. Zool. 
1902, p. 463; id. Ibis, 1904, p. 267 Dabas ; Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. 
p. 614 (1903); iii. p. 835 (1905); Witherby, Ibis, 1905, p. 519 
Dibbit ; Erlanger, J. f.O. 1905, p. 701 N. Somaliland ; Schiebel, 
J. f. O. 1906, p. 188. 
Lanius antinorii mauritii Neumann, J. f. O., 1907, p. 595 Karol 
mountains. 
Adult male. Upper half of head, hinder half of neck and front of mantle 
black; remainder of mantle and back pearl grey fading into white on the 
end half of the scapulars and the upper tail-coverts; wings black, with a 
broad basal portion of the primaries white, and the secondaries with broad 
terminal margins of white and some less defined terminal white margins to 
the inner primaries; under wing-coverts white with a rounded patch near 
base of primaries and the axillaries black; tail black with white ends to all 
but the two centre feathers (often a small apical spot of white seen on these) 
_ increasing in size towards the two outer pairs which are entirely white or 
with only a portion of their shafts black, ‘‘ Iris brown; bill and feet black,” 
