306 LANIARIUS MAJOR 
Museum, where the measurements are given as ll to 
OOT 2 507K tho OZ: 
The British Museum contains examples from the following 
localities: Cape Colony—Durban Road and Table Mountain 
(Grant), George (Layard), Knysna (Andersson and Grant), 
Elands Post (Atmore), Chalumma River (Trevelyan) ; Natal— 
Durban (Shelley, Gordge, Ayres), Drakensberg (Butler), 
Negoye Forest in Zululand (Grant); Z'ransvaal—Rustenburg 
(Lucas), Crocodile River (Oates), Lydenburg (Barratt), 
Swaziland (Buckley), Woodbush and Legogot (Grant); 
Portuguese Hast Africa, Coguno (Grant). 
Laniarius major. 
Telephonus major, Hartl. Rev. Zool. 1848, p. 108 Himina. 
Laniarius major, Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 725 (1896); Reichen. 
Vog. Afr. ii. p. 580 (1903); Sharpe, Handl. B. iv. p. 294 (1903) ; 
Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1905, p. 202 Mulema; 1908, p. 290 N.W. 
Tanganyika ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 334 Camaroon ; Ogilvie-Grant, 
Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 341 (1910) Ruwenzori ; Reichen. Deutsch. 
Zentr. Afr. Exped. iii. p. 312 (1910) Kivw dist.; id. Mitt]. Zool. 
Mus. Berl. v. p. 222 (1910) Camaroon. 
Dryoscopus major casatii, Hartl. J. f. O. 1889, p. 117 Wadelai. 
Dryoscopus albofasciatus, Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 598 Mt. Higon. 
Adult. Upper parts and sides of the head black with a blue gloss; 
feathers of the scapulars generally, and those of the lower back, have sub- 
terminal white patches so that the powder-puff-like feathers of the rump are 
mingled white, grey and black; wing, with a clear longitudinal white band 
formed by the median-coverts, a few of the greater coverts and broad outer 
edges to two of the secondaries; under parts white with a more or less 
rosy tinge. Iris brown, bill black, feet grey. Jackson gives ‘‘iris dull 
crimson, bill black, feet horn blue.’ Total length 8:8 inches, culmen 1:0, 
wing 3°9, tail 4:4, tarsus 1:35 Abokobi, 27. 2. 72 (Shelley). 
Immature, Differs in having buffy white edges and tips to many of the 
feathers, especially of the greater coverts, outer tail feathers with white tips 
and a much paler bill. Kwango, 16. 11. 05. (Boyd Alexander). 
The West African Boubou Shrike ranges from Sierra Leone 
to Camaroon along the west coast of Africa and eastwards to 
