354 DRYOSCOPUS THAMNOPHILUS 
parts ; below white with a wash of pale ochraceous on the chest and flanks. 
The puff-feathers of the rump are pearl grey washed with the same brown as 
that of the back at the tips. Webbe Shebeyli, 2, 5. 9. 94. (Gillett). 
Immature. Closely resembles the female. 
Pringle’s Puff-back Shrike inhabits the dry, thorny wilder- 
nesses of East Africa, ranging from the country east of 
Kilimanjaro to south Somaliland. It was discovered and 
named by Mr. F. J. Jackson, who obtained two examples : 
a young male in the Mauungu wilderness and an adult between 
the rivers, T'savo and Kufumika, both localities in the desert 
country between Kilimanjaro and the sea. He subsequently 
obtained a pair and a young male at Nyaso Nyiro to the 
north of Kenia. Erlanger collected a good series at Kismayu 
and in the Garre Lewin country, in the valley of the Juba 
River, and there is a female from the Webbe Shebeyli in western 
Somaliland obtained by F’. Gillett on September 5, 1894, in 
the British Museum. 
Dryoscopus thamnophilus. 
Dryoscopus thamnophilus, Cabanis, J. f. O. 1868, p. 412; id. in 
Decken’s Reis. iii. p. 26, pl. 8 (1869) Kilimanjaro; Gadow, Cat. 
B. M. viii. p. 147 (1883) ; Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 743; Reichen. Vég. 
Afr. ii. p. 598 (1903). 
Adult. Above grey, the top of the head black, the forehead, sides of the 
neck, chin, and throat grey, the chin paler, the shafts of the ear-coverts 
whitish ; mantle and shoulders mixed black and white, the shoulder stripe 
white ; lesser wing-coverts black, the greater and the quills black, edged with 
white; upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers black, the last with a white 
terminal edging; middle of the lower parts, under tail- and under wing- 
coyerts white, sides of the body grey. Bill dark horn, feet horn grey. 
Length 6:7 inches, wing 32, tail 2-9, bill 0-7, tarsus 0-9 (after Reichenow). 
This bird is only known from the type obtained by Baron 
von der Decken somewhere in Kast Africa, presumably near 
Kilimanjaro. It differs considerably according to Reichenow 
from other members of the genus, and shows some affinities 
