308 LANIARIUS MOSSAMBICUS 
Sierra Leone (Tweeddale Coll.); Gold Coast—Accra 
(Buckley and Smith), Fantee (Ussher and Shelley), Kpong 
and Kintampo (Alexander); Southern Nigeria—Abeokuta 
(Robin); Camaroon—Ja River (Bates); Northern Nigeria— 
Lokoja and Kaduna River (Alexander); French Congo—Kwango 
and Ratu River (Alexander); Belgian Congo—Angba on the 
Welle (Alexander); Egyptian Sudan—Semnio in the Bahr 
el Ghazal (Bohndorf); Uganda—Fadibek and Langomeri 
in the Nile Province (Emin), Mount Elgon (Jackson), Mulema 
(Doggett), Toro and Ruwenzori (Woosnam and Carruthers) ; 
British East Africa—Nandi and Ravine (Jackson). 
Laniarius mossambicus. 
Dryoscopus major mossambicus, Reichen. J. f. O. 1880, p. 141 
Mozambique. 
Laniarius mossambicus, Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 723 (1896). 
Dryoscopus mossambicus, Stark and Scl. Bds. 8. Afr. ii. p. 29 (1901) ; 
Stoehr and Sel. J. S. Afr. Orn. Union, 1906, p. 95 Feira; Neave, 
Man. Mem. li. No. 10, p. 74 (1907); Loangwa River, id. Ibis, 1910, 
p. 228 Katanga. 
Laniarius major mossambicus, Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 580 (1903); W. 
Scl. Ibis, 1911, p. 287 Beira and Tete. 
Dryoscopus guttatus (non Hartl.), Swynnerton, Ibis, 1907, p. 47, 1908, 
p. 53 Gazaland. 
Laniarius major (non Hartl.), Swynnerton, J. 8. Afr. Union, 1911, p. 8. 
Adult. Closely resembling LZ. major, from which in fact it only differs 
in its slightly smaller dimensions ; the lower parts are as a rule washed with 
a shade of cinnamon rather than rosy, and this extends on to the throat 
and under tail-coverts; usually only two of the secondaries are edged with 
white, but sometimes three and sometimes one only, are so marked; the 
outer tail-feathers are very frequently though not invariably tipped with 
white, even in examples which otherwise appear to be adult. Iris dark 
hazel, bill black, legs lead coloured. Length about 9:0 inches, wing 3-7, 
tail 4:1, culmen 0-9, tarsus 1:2; wing of ? 3°6. Zambesi River, 16. 8. 98 
and 10. 10. 98 (Alexander). 
Immature. Have the base of the lower mandible much paler, the 
underparts more strongly washed with cinnamon, the white spots on the 
tail slightly washed with tawny, and the greater wing-coverts edged with 
the same. 
