366 TSCHAGRA SENEGALA 
Anchieta records its native name at Quindumbo as “ Xioco,” 
which is probably only a different spelling for the same 
word, and Capello and Ivens record its name at the Rio 
Coroca as the “Bala.” Andersson writes: “I only found 
this species in the northern parts of Damaraland and after 
I had passed the northern boundary of that country; it was 
very shy and never plentiful. It has been recorded from the 
Kalahari by Fleck.” 
In Cape Colony this Shrike is apparently confined 
to the eastern portion; here Layard found them not un- 
common near Grahamstown and at the Kowie River. Mr. 
Rickard notes its occurrence at Port Elizabeth and Hast 
London and Shortridge in Pondoland. 
Mr. W. L. Sclater informs us that the species is called 
in the Zulu and Swazi language “Inqupan,” and he writes: 
“ According to Messrs. Woodward it lays four largish eggs 
smeared with grey. The nest is an ordinary one, covered 
with lichen and placed in a tree. An egg in the South 
African Museum, taken by Mr. W. Lucas near Rustenburg 
in December, 1881, is white, beautifully marked with pale 
purple blotches, and reddish-brown streaks fairly evenly dis- 
tributed, but slightly thicker at the obtuse end. The egg 
measures 0°95 x 0°72.” Myr. Nehrkorn describes their eges as 
white, with hieroglyphic-like scrawls of violet and deep grey, 
most numerous towards the thick end and measuring 0°95 
x O75. 
Mr. T. Ayres writes from Natal: “This species fre- 
quently builds amongst a mass of tangled creeping plants, 
merely placing the nest on or amongst them, either not at 
all adhering to them, or very slightly indeed.” Later on he 
remarks: “Its flight is weak and it therefore trusts more to 
hiding for safety in the matted coverts; its note is harsh; 
the food consists, I believe, entirely of insects; during its 
