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southern Abyssinia. In spring it migrates north-eastwards to 
the steppes of the Transcaspian region, where it breeds. 
The British Museum has examples from Khartum, 
- January (Zaphiro), Sudan (Dunn), Nubia (Verreaux), Assouan 
February (Hawkshaw) and Kordofan (Pethewick), and there 
is a young shrike from Buggali in the Aroussi country of south 
Abyssinia obtained March 3 by Degen, which I believe to be 
referable to this form. At Tring there are examples from 
Shendy (March) and Schereik (January), on the Nile, and a 
young bird from Gallaland, as well as a series from Persia, 
Transcaspia and Beluchistan. Brehm states that it comes to 
Senaar on the Blue Nile in October, and stays till spring 
feeding on beetles, cockroaches and other insects which abound 
there at that time. Zedlitz obtained a Grey Shrike which he 
identified with this form at Asmara in Eritrea in March. 
Koenig, during his recent journeys up the Nile, obtained a 
pair of males at Djebel Anel, not far from south of Khartum 
on February 16, 1910, as well as another some years pre- 
viously at Tangasi, north of Khartum. 
Lanius elegans. 
Lanius elegans, Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Amer. ii. p. 122 (1831) Fur 
countries ! ; Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii. p. 251, pl. vii. (1883). 
Lanius excubitor elegans, Hartert, Vig. pal. Fauna, i, p. 427 (1907). 
Lanius hemileucurus, Finsch and Hartl. Vég. Ost-Afr. p. 329 (1870) 
Algeria. 
Lanius leuconotus (non Brehm), Butler, Ibis, 1908, p. 225, 1909, p. 394 
Port Sudan. 
DescriptionAdult. Of the same general size and appearance as 
L, aucheri and L. pallidirostris with a pale pearly grey back, and without 
any white on the rump, but the under parts pure white, neither grey nor rosy, 
and with the two outer pairs of tail-feathers almost entirely white, the 
penultimate pair with sometimes a little dusky along the shaft; the amount 
of black on the secondaries varies, as a rule the inner web is quite white and 
the outer black with a white tip. Length about 9:0 inches, wing 4:25, 
tail 4:30, culmen 0-55, tarsus 1-1. Type (Hudson Bay Company). 
