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terminal white spots on the fluffy decomposed feathers, giving a slightly 
spotted appearance to that part especially when the feathers are separated, 
below from the throat to the lower chest faint rosy pink, becoming paler on 
the abdomen, thighs and under tail-coverts ; lining of the quills black, under 
wing-coverts and axillaries white with a patch of black near the edge of 
the wing. Iris dark brown, bill greenish black, feet greenish blue. Length 
9:5 inches, wing 4-2, tail 4:4, culmen 0°95, tarsus 1:3. Gunnal, 3, 29. 5. 09. 
(Ansorge). Wing of ? 3:98. 
Turati’s Boubou is a rare bird. The type, described 
by Verreaux many years ago and still preserved in the Turati 
Collection at Milan, remained unique until a second example 
was obtained by Fea at Farim, in Portuguese Guinea, for the 
Genoa Museum on April 11, 1900. More recently Dr. 
Ansorge during his visit to the same colony has collected a 
good series at Gunnal, four males and one female with nest 
and eggs. These are now in the British Museum and 
form the basis for this description. The nest is a flimsy 
structure of grass, stems, and fine rootlets, with two dried 
leaves in it which presumedly formed the lining. It was 
placed in a bush at the junction of several forking branches 
about six feet from the ground. The eggs which were taken 
May 27, 1909, are two in number, hedge sparrow blue in 
colour and unspotted. They measure 10 x 0°75, 
Laniarius sublacteus. 
Dryoscopus sublacteus, Cass. Pr. Philad. Ac. 1851, p. 246 Hast 
Africa ; Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii. p. 140 (1883); Bannerman, Ibis, 
1910, p. 690 Takaungu. 
Malaconotus sublacteus, Cab. Decken Reise, iii. p. 26 pl. iv. (1869). 
Laniarius sublacteus, Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 736 (1896); Reichen. Vég. 
Afr. ii, p. 576 (1903). 
Adults. Upper parts, including the entire wing, black with a blue gloss; 
feathers of the scapulars generally, and always those of the lower back, have 
a subterminal white patch, and the white sometimes forms a bar next to 
the upper tail-coverts ; under parts white with a rosy buff tinge caused by 
the more basal portion of the feathers of the lower throat and breast being 
