260 FISCUS SOMALICUS 
is one example from Dibbit, about 120 miles north-west of 
Obbia on the east coast of Somaliland, obtained by Captain 
Hamerton. ‘This is the most southern point of the range. 
This species replaces L. dorsalis to the north of about 
5° N. lat. in the Somali districts between Lake Stefanie and 
the Berbera Danakil coast ; on the latter, at Afmu, Antinori 
obtained the type of ZL. antinoru. Erlanger found it in 
great abundance in northern Somaliland, where it was 
apparently arriving from the Abyssinian highlands in January 
and February. The nest he describes as similar to that of 
L. collurio but more lightly constructed, and placed in a bush 
or on an acacia tree at not more than 9 ft. from the ground. 
The eggs were also very like those of our Red-backed Shrike, 
being of a dull yellowish white with large pale ashy grey spots 
mostly at the thick or narrow end, forming a zone at one of 
these ends, and measured out of eight eggs 0°92 x O'75. He 
took two nests, each containing four eggs, at Dadab on 
January 24 and 29. 
Neumann has recently described a new subspecies— 
Lanius antinorii mauritii, differing as he states from the 
typical L. antinori in the sharp line of distinction between 
the black head and grey back, plain white rump and upper tail- 
coverts, and grey, not black, axillaries. Only one example— 
a male from the Karoli Mountains—was obtained, but it is 
assumed that Mr. Donaldson Smith’s specimens from Lake 
Stephanie and Gorili should be referred to this form. One of 
these, from Gorili, cannot be distinguished from the typical 
Somaliland birds, and it seems unnecessary to keep the Galla 
country bird separate. 
