TSCHAGRA HABESSINICA 371 
Halfa and Khartum and took a clutch of eggs, but gives no 
details. Owing to its habit of skulking in thick bush he 
heard it much oftener than he saw it. 
The British Museum has examples from the following 
localities, all in the Hgyptian Sudan—Shendi (Rothschild 
and Wollaston), Senaar (Dunn and Hedenborg), Kordofan 
(Stockholm Museum), Kaka and Fashoda (Hawker). 
Tschagra habessinica. 
Lanius senegalus var. habyssinica, Hempr. and Ehr. Symb. Phys. i. fol. e. 
(1828) Abyssinian coastlands. 
Telephonus senegalus habessinicus, Neumann J. f. 0.1907 p. 372; Zedlitz 
J. f. O. 1910, p. 796 Eritrea. 
Laniarius blanfordi, Sharpe, in Layard’s B. S. Afr. p. 397 (1882) Anseba. 
Telephonus blanfordi, Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii. p. 127, pl. 2 fig. 2 (1883) ; 
Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 752 (1896). 
Pomatorhynchus blanfordi, Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 550 (1903), iii. p. 833 
(1905) ; Sharpe, Handl. B. iv. p. 300 (1903). 
Subspecies a.—Tschagra erlangert. 
Telephonus senegalus erlangeri, Neumann, J. f. O. 1907 p. 373 Abaja 
Lake; Koenig, Ber. V. Intern. Orn. Kongr. 1910, p. 511 Bahr el 
Ghazal. 
Telephonus blanfordi (non Sharpe), O. Grant, Ibis, 1904, p. 265 S. 
Abyssima. 
Pomatorhynchus blanfordi (non Sharpe), Erlanger, J. f. O. 1905, p. 692 
Shoa; Oates and Reid, Cat. B. Eggs, B. M. iv. p. 293, pl. xii. 
fig. 17, 20 (1905). 
Pomatorhynchus senegalus habessinicus (non Hempr. and Ebr.), Neumann, 
J. £. O. 1905, p. 220 Shoa ; O.-Grant, Ibis, 1907, p. 588 Sobat River. 
Adults. Similar to T. senegala, from which it differs in the upper parts 
being slightly darker, the hack of a more earthy shade, and in the thighs 
and under tail-coverts being dark grey like the flanks, but with some white 
ends to these feathers; the banding of the tail, so conspicuous in 7’. senegalus, 
is very obscure and often quite absent ; the eye stripe is white in front and 
only faintly tinged with buff behind the eye, sometimes almost as pale as 
the front portion. ‘ Iris brown, with white spots varying from three to six 
in number ; bill black ; legs light slate colour” (Lovat). Total length about 
8°5 inches, culmen 0:85, wing 3°4, tail 4:2, tarsus 1:2. Akaki R., 3, 18. 3. 02 
(Degen). 
