296 LANIARIINAE 
British Museum. Abyssinia—Annesley Bay, February 1 
(Blanford) ; Somaliland—Goolis foothills, March 18, Berbera, 
January 19, Sheikh, January 22 (Lort Phillips), Somadu, 
January 22 (Pease); British Hast Africa— Waso Nyro, 
January 29, Gessima, Lakipia, January 24, Nairobi, 
December 4 (Delamere). 
Subfamily II. LANIARIINAE. 
Bill more variable than in the Laniinae, but generally more slender and 
compressed, culmen generally straight, hooked and notched at the tip ; nostrils 
free from the frontal bristles and exposed; never with a crest on the head ; 
wings short and rounded, the third or fourth primaries generally the longest, 
and the first about two-thirds the length of the second; feathers of the rump 
soft and fluffy and often erectile into a soft powder-puff-like appendage ; 
sexes alike or not very different from one another. 
This subfamily contains the Bush-Shrikes, non-migratory birds of rather 
feeble flight as a rule; with one exception, Tschagra cucullata of Morocco 
and Algeria, they are confined to the Ethiopian region, excluding Madagascar. 
KEY TO THE GENERA. 
a. Tail always more than two thirds the length of the wing. 
a1. No shade of green on the upper parts. 
a?. No bright pink on the lower back. 
a’, Wings and their coverts black or black and white 
in adults. 
. Rump not ae ee with the mantle; sexes 
HM 5 9 6 Laniarius. 
b4. Rump white or orey domes ee hh ke ; 
mantle; sexes generally distinguishable. 
a®, Bill compressed, culmen ridged. . Dryoscopus. 
65. Bill rather depressed and broad, palene flat 
and notridged . . . . . . » « Chaunonotus. 
Was Wings more or lass bright Ghestauke 
. Bill longer and more valender’ tail tipped with 
white; sexesialike. : »- . / 4 . . . « Wschagra. 
d*, Bill shorter and stouter; tail not sisi 
white-tipped ; sexes differing . . . . Antichromus. 
b2, Wing-coverts and upper parts pale brown ; ‘lower 
back rosy pink| 9 Gy 9.0 |: My Pentel ee Od OpnOnets= 
