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be fairly constant, but the birds from Lake Ngami and the 
Victoria Falls district appear to average rather larger, the 
wings measuring 4°0 to 4°3 against 3°6 to 3°8 in birds from 
north Angola. 
The examples of this Boubou in the British Museum are 
as follows :— 
Angola—Cunene River (Andersson), Capangombe, Gambos 
(Anchieta), Benguella type (Monteiro), Catumbella, Hoxe, 
Malanji, N’Dalla Tondo, Dondo (Ansorge); Portuguese Congo— 
Landana (Petit); Lake Neami (Chapman and Woosnam) ; 
Victoria Falls (Bradshaw). Examples from Katanga (Neave), 
and Karungwesi River near Lake Mweru (A. Sharpe), are 
intermediate between this and L. mossambicus. 
Laniarius «ethiopicus. 
Turdus ethiopicus, Gmelin, S. N. ii, p. 824 (1788) Abyssinia. 
Laniarius ethiopicus, Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 724 (1896); Reichen. Vog. 
Afr. ii. p. 577 (1903); Sharpe, Handl. B. iv. p. 294 (1903); Neum. 
J. f. O. 1905, p. 222 Shoa ; Erlanger t. c. p. 697 Somaliland ; Butler, 
Ibis, 1905, p. 329 Gallabat, 1908, p. 226, 1909, p. 80 Bahr el 
Ghazal. 
Dryoscopus exthiopicus, Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii. p. 189 (1883); Grant, 
Ibis, 1904, p. 265 Harrar ; Witherby, Ibis, 1905, p. 519 Somaliland ; 
Gurney, Ibis, 1909, p. 500 B. H. A.; Bannerman, Ibis, 1910, p. 302 
Somaliland. 
Laniarius zthiopicus zthiopicus, Zedlitz, J. f. O. 1910, p. 798 Eritrea. 
Subspecies a. Laniarius ambiguus. 
Lanius ethiopicus ambiguus, Mad. Mus. Nat. Hung. ii. p. 205 
(1904) Kilimanjaro ; Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 834 (1905); Sjostedt, 
Kilimandjaro-Meru Exped. Vog. p. 115 (1910). 
Subspecies b. Lamarius somaliensis. 
Lanius ethiopicus somaliensis, Reichen. Vog. Afr. ui. p. 834 (1905) ; 
Erlanger, J. f. O. 1905, p. 697, Umfudu S. Somaliland. 
Adult male. Above, including the crown and sides of the head, glossy 
black, a little duller on the wing quills; rump feathers whitish, with 
projecting fine hair-like barbs which are black, causing a spotted appearance 
