‘OTOMELA PHCNICUROIDES 295 
Otomela phcenicuroides. 
Lanius phcenicuroides Severzow J. f. O. 1873, p. 347 nom. nud. ; 
Neumann, J. f. O. 1905, p. 229 Shoa; Erlanger t.c. p. 703 North 
Somaliland ; Gurney, Ibis, 1909, p. 499 British Hast Africa. 
Otomela phcenicuroides Schalow, J. f. O. 1875 p. 148 Z'schimkent, 
Turkestan. 
Lanius cristatus phoenicuroides, Hartert, Vog. palaark. Fauna i. p. 443 
(1907) ; Zedlitz, J. f. O., 1910, p. 806 Hritrea. 
Lanius isabellinus (non Hempr. and Ehr.) Walden, Ibis, 1867, p, 224 
Poles) Lens 
Lanius phcenicurus var. montana, var. ruficeps, var. caniceps, Severzow, 
Turkest. Jevotn. pp. 143, 144, 145 (1873). 
Otomela phoenicuroides, subsp. romanowi, subsp. karelini, Bogdanow, 
Wurger Russ. Reichs. p. 14 &e., pl. 1 (1881). 
Otomela varia, Sarudny, Mater. Kenntn, Fauna Flora Russ. Reichs, Zool. 
Theil ii, p. 194 (1896). 
Similar to O. isabellina from which it differs only in the brown of the 
upper parts being rufous instead of sandy, and the top of the head being 
strongly washed with rufous. Total length 75 inches, culmen 0-6, 
wing 3:65, tail 3:4, tarsus 0:9. Goolis, 3, 18. 3. 97 (L. Phillips). 
Severzow’s Red-tailed Shrike breeds in Transcaspia, 
Turkestan, Afghanistan, and perhaps Persia, apparently to the 
west of the breeding range of the Pale Red-tailed Shrike, but 
their respective breeding ranges are not very well determined. 
In winter it migrates south to southern Arabia, Abyssinia, 
Somaliland, and British East Africa. Neumann was the first 
observer who definitely recorded this species from Africa; he 
obtained a female on the banks of Lake Abaya in southern 
Shoa on December 28, and remarked that it, as well as all 
the Red-tails he obtained in East Africa, were undoubtedly 
referable to this species. Erlanger also obtained three 
specimens on the Zeila-Djeldessa road in north Somaliland 
in February. Gurney found this Shrike common amongst the 
thick bush near the Athi River in British East Africa, and 
Zedlitz obtained one specimen at Cheren in Eritrea on 
February 13. 
I have examined the following African examples in the 
