292 OTOMELA 
J. E. Buckley and I during our stay in that country found it 
not uncommon throughout the Accra district to Abouri in 
Aguapim in February. In northern Nigeria, W. A. Forbes 
collected two specimens at Shonga in December and Hartert 
others at Sokoto, where the species was plentiful in the 
northern provinces and where he remarked that it had a 
louder song than LD. awriculatus (i.e., P. senator). Reichenow 
has recently recorded this species from the Bansso Mountains 
in the interior of Camaroon. 
Hartert seems to have been the first to notice that the 
Woodchat Shrikes of Corsica belong to this form. He found 
that an adult male shot at Porto Vecchio in Corsica on April 
24, 1883, by John Whitehead, had, like the West African 
examples, no white speculum on the primaries. This discovery 
has since been confirmed by Kleinschmidt and other observers, 
and is also the case with the birds in Sardinia. This species 
is not well represented in the British Museum, which contains 
only Shelley’s and Forbes’s specimens already alluded to, and 
one female collected March 3, 1902, at Kintampo in the 
central portion of the Gold Coast Colony by Alexander. 
Genus VII. OTOMELA. 
Type. 
Otomela Bp. Rey. Mag. Zool. 1853, p. 486. . . . . . . O. cristata. 
Resembling Lanius in structure, distinguished only by plumage char- 
acters; general colour reddish-brown without any decided black or white ; 
whole tail rufous or rufous brown without white or black and slightly 
graduated. 
About six species of this genus inhabit Asia, only two reach the Ethiopian 
region during the winter months as migrants. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Ge WIRE OCA DI. 95 6 a 0 4 o o oo ¢ isabellina. 
6. More rufous above, especially on the crown. . . . . phenicuroides. 
