LANIARIUS RUFICEPS 299 
k8. No white spot on the breast . . ee eoris. 
18. A white triangular spot on the aes . . . . alboplagatus. 
12, Black above and below . . erlangert. 
h+. No spots on the rump but the Spree of “para parts 
subterminally grey . . nigerrimus. 
1, Rump feathers black tivenehounl not llee ale 
terminally ; tail shorter than the wing. 
m®. Sooty black above and below. 
m8. Larger, wing about3‘9. ... . =. . . . dJleucorhynchus. 
: : awe ({ holomelas. 
n®, Smaller, wing about 3:2, tail quite short epcohets 
n?, Slaty, not sooty; wing about34 ... . . . filliborni. 
Laniarius ruficeps. 
Dryoscopus ruficeps, Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 402, pl. 10 Somaliland. 
Laniarius ruficeps, Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 718 (1896); Reichen. Vég. 
Afr. ii. p. 585 (1903); Sharpe, Handl. B. iv. p. 293 (1903); 
Bannerman, Ibis, 1910, p. 303 Somaliland. 
Adult. Forehead and sides of the crown black; crown and nape bright 
rufous-red ; a broad white eyebrow, covering the sides of the forehead, and 
extending back behind the ear-coverts ; lores, and sides of the head and neck, 
jet-black ; hinder neck and the upper back ashy-grey, passing into glossy 
jet-black on the scapulars and lower back where the feathers have large 
white, subterminal marks; upper tail-coverts entirely black; tail black, the 
three outer pairs of feathers with white ends, the outer pair with a white 
outer margin as well; wings mostly black, with a white longitudinal 
band across the median series of wing-coverts, and extending down the 
outer edges of three of the secondaries ; broad inner edges to the quills, and 
nearly all the under wing-coverts, pure white; under parts white, very 
faintly tinted with rufous on the flanks and thighs. ‘ Iris hazel; bill black ; 
feet dusky grey.” Total length 7 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 3:0, tail 2-9, 
tarsus 1-1. Central Somaliland, 2. 1. 85 (Lort Phillips). 
The Red-crowned Bush-Shrike inhabits Somaliland. 
It was first brought to England by Mr. Lort Phillips, who 
obtained a single example, probably at Burao, about seventy 
miles south of Berbera, on January 2, 1885. 
The British Museum contains six additional examples 
obtained by Bury recently at Burao, and one from the 
Delamere collection, obtained at Logh on the Juba River 
