274 LANIUS UNCINATUS 
Witherby during his journey up the White Nile found it 
nowhere common, and generally met with singly and rather 
wild. Wollaston, who obtained two males at Shendy, states 
that in February he saw no signs of breeding, and that the 
birds were single. 
I have only been able to find two examples of this species 
in the British Museum, the one now described, and another 
labelled simply ‘“ North Africa,” but I have seen the types of 
Brehm’s L. leuconotus in the Tring Museum, as well as 
Wollaston’s examples from Shendy, and an additional one 
obtained later at Naikhala on the Atbara River in February, 
and one from Wad Marim, near Khartum, obtained on 
May 13, by Witherby. 
Lanius uncinatus. 
Lanius uncinatus, Sclater and Hartl. P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 168, fig. i. 
Socotra ; Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii. p. 245 (1883); Shelley, B. Afr. i. 
No. 703 (1896); Grant, Nov. Zool. 1902, p. 460, pl. 27, fig. 12; 
Ogilvie-Grant and Forbes, Nat. Hist. Socotra, p. 38 (1903); 
Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 620 (1908). 
Adult male. A narrow band on the forehead, about -1 inch wide, and 
sides of head, from the upper mandible to the end of the ear-coverts, black 
crown, hinder half of neck, back, upper tail-coverts and the scapulars pearl- 
grey, the latter fading into white towards the inner secondaries; wings 
mostly black with the least coverts grey ; some white terminal edges to the 
secondaries and inner primaries ; primaries with the white speculum of the 
wings much reduced, the white at the base of the quills only extending 
. about ‘5 inch beyond the greater coverts; under wing-coverts with a patch of 
silvery-grey; inner edges to the quills whitish; axillaries greyer with white 
edges; tail with the outer pair of feathers white with a dark shaft stripe 
widening at the base, fifth pair with a slightly broader shaft stripe, central 
pair entirely black ; lower portion of cheeks and the under parts generally 
white tinged with grey on the lower throat, chest and sides of body. Iris 
brown; bill and feet black. Total length 9 inches, culmen 0:8, wing 3:9, 
tail 3-9, tarsus 1-1. Type, Socotra, g, 16. 2. 80 (Balfour). 
The female is similar, but perhaps averages slightly smaller. 
A young bird (with wings and tail hardly full grown) has the upper parts 
washed with earthy-brown, including the tips of the inner secondaries; the 
breast and sides of the body somewhat mottled with the same colour; the 
