FISCUS DORSALIS 261 
Fiscus dorsalis. 
Lanius (Fiscus) dorsalis, Cab. J. f. O. 1878, pp. 205, 225 Nd. 
Lanius dorsalis, Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 699 (1896); Ogilvie-Grant, Nov. 
Zool. 1902, p. 463; Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 614 (1903) ; Erlanger, 
J. f. O. 1905, p. 701 S. H. Somaliland ; Schiebel, J. f. O. 1906, p. 
188; Sjéstedt, Kilimandjaro-Meru Exped. V6g. p. 116 (1910). 
Adult male——Top of head, hinder half of neck and front of mantle black, 
rather sharply separated from the pearl grey of the remainder of the back ; 
end half of the scapulars and the upper tail-coverts almost white ; wings 
black, with only a broad basal portion of the primaries white ; no white on 
the tips of the secondaries ; the under wing-coverts white with the rounded 
patch near the base of the primaries and the axillaries black; tail black, 
with the extreme base white, and with white ends to all but the four or 
sometimes six centre feathers, increasing in size towards the outer pair 
where the white extends down to the base of the outer web only and does 
not exceed 0:75 on the inner web; under parts white, with the flanks slightly 
greyish. ‘Iris brown; bill and legs black.” Total length 8-5 inches, 
culmen 0:7, wing 4:0, tail 3:9, tarsus 1-1. Turquel (Jackson)., 
Adult female.—Differs in plumage from the male only in having a patch 
of deep chestnut on the flanks. Wing 3°75 inches. 
Immature.—The black of the head and wing-coverts mottled with ashy 
brown and some black bars; quills with whitish terminal edges. Kitui, 
3. 8. 03 (Storey). 
The Teita Fiscal Shrike ranges from the Usambara and 
Kilimanjaro districts of German East Africa into southern 
Somaliland. The species is represented in the British Museum 
from Kitui (Storey), and Likipia (Delamere) in British 
East Africa; from Geledi (Gillett) and Somaliland (Lort 
Phillips), while at Tring I have seen specimens from the Voi 
river (Ansorge) and Lake Stephanie (Donaldson Smith). The 
absence of white on the secondaries and the lesser amount of 
white on the tail-feathers at once distinguishes it from 
F. somalicus. The most southern range known for this Shrike 
is the Voi River between Kilimanjaro and the sea, where it 
has been procured by Dr. Ansorge, while the type was 
discovered at Ndi in the Teita country by Hildebrandt, who 
also met with the species at Melembou in Ukamba. Sjostedt 
June, 1912. 18 
