LANIARIUS 297 
61, Some shade of green on the upper back. 
c?, Two proximal phalanges of 3rd and 4th toes free 
and normal. 
c’. A black gorget across the chest. 
e*, Bill stout and strongly notched, culmen straight 
for the basal two-thirds eels Telophorus. 
f*. Bill short and slender, culmen peutly queved 
throughout; notch very feeble . . . Neolestes. 
d®. No black gorget; axillaries and wing ae 
yellow. 
g*. Bill very large and stout and strongly hooked, 
not less than ‘4 inch deep; wing-coverts and 
quills tipped with yellow; sexes alike . . . Malaconotus. 
h*, Bill moderate and less strongly hooked ; males 
with a black band on the sides of the head . Chlorophoneus. 
d*®, Two proximal phalanges of the 3rd and 4th toes 
united in a common sheath ; secondaries and coverts 
spotted with pale yellow . . Nicator. 
b. Tail about half the eat of the wing; plumage black, 
white and grey .. . . Lanioturdus. 
GenusI. LANTARIUS. 
Bill moderate not very strongly hooked ; nostrils rounded, at the front end 
of a groove and not overhung by bristles or frontal feathers; a few rictal 
bristles ; wing rounded and rather short, the fourth to sixth primaries the 
longest; tail about the same length as the wing; puff-feathers of the rump 
long, soft, and often with white spots but not contrasting strongly in colour 
with the mantle ; sexes alike ; plumage black or blackish above, below black, 
yellow, red or whitish. 
Type. 
Laniarius, Vieill. Analyse, p.41 (1816) . . . . . JZ. barbarus. 
Rhynchastratus Bp. Comptes Rend. xxxviii. p. 535 
(S52) een . . LL. leucorhynchus. 
This genus contains eran cei species and i is confined to tropical and 
south Africa. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
a. Underparts white or only washed with ey or rosy. 
a1, Crown and nape bright rufous .. . See | Sebficeps. 
b1. Only the nape Saece, crown shiny black. 
a?, Nape-patch larger and brighter . . . . . . . rufinuchalis. 
6, Nape-patch smaller and paler . . . . . . . kismayensis. 
