330 LANIARIUS ERLANGERI 
was well in sight. It was small and flat, and constructed 
of rootlets and strips of bark. The egg was somewhat glossy, 
pale blue with fine speckling of pale brown, and some 
lavender scale-like spots at the thicker end; it measured 
about O90 xX 0°65. 
The following is a list of the localities whence the British 
Museum has received examples of this species: Southern 
A byssinia—Ketchen Waha (Lord Lovat), Daira Aila (Degen), 
and Melkadegaga (Pease); Somaliland—Goolis Foothills and 
Sheikh Pass (l. Phillips), Kokolo (Gillett), Hirabon, Gale 
Dabal (Degen), Las Man (Pease), Burao, Wagar and Dubar 
(Bury); Lake Stephanie (D. Smith); Uganda—Burumba in 
Ankole (Doggett); British Hast Africa—Gessima River, 
Kenya and Kedong River (Delamere), Ukambani (Ansorge), 
and Ukamba (Hildebrandt); German Hast Africa—Kiliman- 
jaro (Hunter and Percival), north of Lake Nyasa (Sharpe). 
Laniarius alboplagatus. 
Dryoscopus alboplagatus, Jackson, Bull. B. O. C. xvi. p. 90 (1906) 
Doingo Narok. 
Adult female. In every respect identical with L. funebris, but with a 
large triangular white spot on the throat. Length 7-3 inches, culmen 0°85, 
wing 3°25, tail 3:3, tarsus 1-2. 
This species is founded on a unique specimen, and is 
probably nothing but an individual variation in the direction 
of albinism. It was discovered by Mr. Jackson at Doingo 
Narok in British Hast Africa. 
Laniarius erlangeri. 
Laniarius erlangeri, Reichen. V6g. Afr. iii. p. 834 (1905) Umfudu ; 
Erlanger, J. f. O., 1905, p. 697. 
Adult male. Black above and below, rather more glossy on the upper 
part of the head, and with white subterminal markings on the feathers 
of the lower back, and the inner lining of the quills slightly whitish. Bill 
