262 FISCUS CABANISI 
found this bird fairly common in Usambara, but only met with 
it twice in the Kilimanjaro neighbourhood, generally in 
country with scattered acacia bush. To the north of the 
Hquator, in the Turquel Suk country, Mr. Jackson procured 
a fine adult male, and wrote on the label: “Crop contained 
part of a mouse, a large caterpillar, spiders, &c.” In Somali- 
land, specimens have been collected by Revoil, Ruspoli and 
Mr. Lort Philipps, and, according to the latter naturalist, 
these were “only met with on the table-land, where they 
appeared to be fairly plentiful.” Erlanger during his travels 
in south-eastern Somaliland met with a great rush of these 
Shrikes up the Juba River from Kismaju and Bardera into 
the Garre Lewin country between May 1 and July 11. 
Fiscus cabanisi. 
Lanius caudatus (non Brehm), Cabanis J. f. O. 1868, p. 412 ; 1869, pl. 3; 
id. Decken’s, Reis. iii. p. 28, pl. 5 (1869) Mombasa; Gadow, Cat. 
B. M. viii. p. 254 (1883); Grant, Nov. Zool. 1902, p. 468; Reichen. 
Vég. Afr. ii. p. 613 (1903); Erlanger, J. f. O. 1905, p. 701 Umfudu ; 
Schiebel, J. f. O. 1906, p. 174, pls. G. fig. 3, 9 ad, EH. fig. 7, juv.; 
Gurney, Ibis. 1909, p. 498 Nairobi ; Bannerman, Ibis, 1910, p. 688, 
Mombasa ; Sjéstedt Kilimandjaro-Meru Exped. Végel, p. 146 (1910). 
Fiscus caudatus, Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 697 (1896); Oates, Cat. Bird’s 
Eggs B. M. iv. p. 283, pl. xiii. fig. 2 (1905). 
Lanius cabanisi, Hartert, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 404 (1906). 
Adult male-—Top and sides of head, hinder half of neck and front and 
sides of mantle black, shading into dusky grey on the upper back and inner 
half of the scapulars; middle back paler grey fading into white on the rump 
and tail-coverts, which latter are often tinged with grey and show a few 
traces of the black bars of the immature plumage; tail black with a white 
basal portion not reaching to the end of the tail-coverts, and sometimes 
a few white terminal edges to the feathers, but no white tips; wings black 
with broad white bases to the primaries and sometimes a few white terminal 
margins mostly developed on the secondaries; under wing-coverts white 
mottled with black; axillaries black; entire under parts white. Iris brown; 
bill and feet black. Total length 11-7 inches, culmen 0:8, wing 4:5, tail 6:3, 
tarsus 1:25. Kitui, 1. 8. 03 (Storey). 
