FISCUS CABANISI 263 
Adult female.—Differs in having a large patch of dark chestnut on the 
flanks. Wing 4:2 inches. Kitui, 27. 7. 03 (Storey). 
Immature.—Differ from adults in having the top of head, hinder half of 
neck, mantle and wing-coverts brown barred with rufous buff and black ; 
lower back and upper tail-coverts buff, barred with black ; crop and chest 
mottled with imperfect dusky bars. Kilimanjaro (Johnston). 
The Long-tailed Shrike ranges from Dar-es-Salaam in 
German Hast Africa north to Barawa in south Somaliland 
and westwards in the interior to Kilimanjaro and Nairobi. 
From the coast Sir John Kirk kindly collected for me speci- 
mens at Dar-es-Salaam, its most southern known limit; also 
at Melinde and Lamu. Mr. Hunter obtained this Shrike on 
the Useri river and Mr. Jackson in Taita, and at Mashun- 
dwani, whence he writes: “Very plentiful everywhere. 
Found a nest with young birds in it in a thorn bush in 
September, 1885. Feeds chiefly on grasshoppers. Generally 
three or four together. Common also at Kilimanjaro.” On 
this mountain Sir Harry Johnston collected specimens up to 
an elevation of 3,000 feet, and remarks: “They affect the 
desert and waterless districts at the foot of the mountain, 
perching on low shrubs and pouncing upon the grasshoppers 
which are very abundant in this district and form their 
principal food.” Hildebrandt found the species at Mombasa 
and in Ukamba generally distributed but not abundant, and 
according to Fischer it is rare in the interior of Masailand, 
but he collected specimens in Little Arusha, at Kipini, Maurui, 
and in Wapokomoland, where they were most plentiful in the 
more mountainous parts and where he remarks that their note 
is a cackling “ae,ae.” He also found the species on Lamu 
Island and at Barawa, on the south Somali coast, which is 
the most northern limit of its range. 
Erlanger found this Shrike not uncommon in the trees of 
the oases in the green steppes along the Juba River in south 
Somaliland. In June when he was there the young birds 
