300 LANIARIUS RUFINUCHALIS 
much further south, near the junction of Italian, British and 
Somali territory. 
It is probably distributed throughout the western dry 
portion of Somaliland. Nothing is known about its habits. 
Laniarius rufinuchalis. 
Dryoscopus rufinuchalis, Sharpe, P. Z. 8. 1895, p. 479 Duro, 
W. Somaliland. 
Laniarius rufinuchalis, Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 719 (1896); Reichen. 
Vog. Afr. ii. p. 586 (1903); Sharpe, Handl. B. iv. p. 293 (1903) ; 
Erlanger, J. f. O. 1905, p. 698, S.W. Somaliland. 
Subspecies a. Laniarius kismayensis. 
Dryoscopus ruficeps kismayensis, Erlanger, Orn. Monatsb. 1901, p. 182 
Kismayu. 
Laniarius kismayensis, Sharpe, Handl. B. iv. p. 293 (1903). 
Laniarius rufinuchalis kismayensis, Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 586 (1903) ; 
Erlanger, J. f. O. 1905, p. 698. 
Adult male. Similar to L. ruficeps, but differing in the black of the 
head, extending back over the front half of the crown, while the rufous- 
scarlet patch is confined to the hinder crown and the nape; scapulars 
uniform black, with no subterminal white patches to the feathers, but the 
rump and upper tail-coverts spotted as in L. ruficeps. ‘Iris brown; bill 
black; feet grey” (D. Smith). Total length 7 inches, culmen 0:75, 
wing 3:0, tail 3°3, tarsus 1-1. Abdula, 9, 25. 11. 94 (F. Gillett). 
L. kismayensis. ‘Very similar to L. rufinuchalis, but the red nape 
patch is smaller and paler, and mixed with grey. Iris red-brown; feet 
lead-grey. Bill larger, culmen 0°80 to 0:84” (Reichenow). 
The Red-naped replaces the Red-crowned Bush-Shrike in 
western Somaliland and in British Hast Africa. 
The type, described by Sharpe, was obtained by Dr. 
Donaldson Smith at Durro on December 1, 1894, together 
with two other examples at Dabulli and Tooloo Duroo, while 
his companion, Mr. F. Gillett, procured a single specimen 
at Abdulla—all localities in western Somaliland. 
Ansorge obtained an example at Kinani in the Ukamba 
Province of British East Africa, and Baron von Erlanger 
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