304 LANIARIUS FERRUGINEUS 
Diyoscopus rufiventris hybridus, Taylor, J. S. Afr. Orn. Union, 1906, 
p. 66 Irene. 
Dryoscopus sticturus (non Hartl. and Finsch), Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii. 
p. 136 (1883). 
Le Boubou, Levaillant, Ois. d’Afr. ii. p. 73, pl. 68 (1799). 
Adult male.—Upper parts and sides of the head and neck glossy black, 
a little less glossy on the quills; feathers of lower back washed with rufous 
and subterminally white; wing, with the greater portion of the median 
coverts, three of the greater coverts and the outer margins of two of the 
secondaries, white ; under wing-coyerts buff, with the outer ones and a patch 
near the primaries black; under surface of quills brown, generally with 
paler inner edges; under surface cream-colour, shading into cinnamon-buff 
on the abdomen, flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts. Iris dark brown; 
bill black; feet slate-grey. Total length 9 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 4:2, 
tail 3-9, tarsus 1:5. Drakensberg, g, 7.8.81 (A. E. Butler). 
Adult female.—Ditfers in having the upper parts browner and nearly the 
whole of the under parts shaded with cinnamon-buff; inner margins of the 
quills whiter; bill brown; wing 3:9. Drakensberg, @, 13. 8. 81 (A. E. 
Butler). 
Immature.—Upper parts and sides of head dark brown, with rusty 
brown ends and black subterminal bars on the feathers of the crown, many 
of the wing-coverts, upper tail-coverts, and the ends of the three outer pairs 
of tail-feathers; a few of the median wing-coverts with white ends; pale 
edges to the two secondaries rufous buff; chin and upper half of the throat 
white, passing into rufous-buff on the remainder of the throat, centre of 
chest and abdomen, deepening into pale cinnamon on the flanks, thighs and 
under tail-coverts ; the crop and chest mottled with dusky bars. Bill horn- 
colour, fading into white at the base of the lower mandible; tarsi and 
feet grey. Length in the flesh 8°6 inches. Durban, 27. 3. 74 (Shelley). 
The Boubou Shrike appears to be confined to South Africa 
south of the Limpopo for the most part, though perhaps 
extending as far north as the Inhambane district of Portuguese 
East Africa, where two females indistinguishable from typical 
examples were obtained by C. Grant. It has not hitherto 
been noticed in Rhodesia or Damaraland. 
Gmelin’s name for this species was founded on Latham’s 
description of the “ Ferruginous-bellied Shrike ” (Gen. Synop. 
i. 1781, p. 163), “from the Cape Good of Hope in the collec- 
tion of Miss Blomefield”; there is no doubt in my mind 
