592 RHODOPHONEUS CRUENTUS 
b1. Sides of crop and body browner: back as well as 
crown tinged with red; both sexes with the same 
black gorget >. = . | 
b. Upper throat white (females). 
ct. Above grey, only the crown slightly washed with 
(abe 4 oo Geto) og oo ob 8 ee IS © » 
d1, Above brown, crown and mantle washed ee hilgerti 2. 
crimson cathemagmenus ¢ . 
cathemagmenus 3. 
Rhodophoneus cruentus. 
Lanius cruentus, Hempr. and Ehr. Symb. Phys. fol. C. pl. 3, figs. 1 ?, 
2,3 g$ (1828) Arkiko. 
Rhodophoneus cruentus, Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 760 (1896); Sharpe, 
Handl. B. iv. p. 293 (1903); Butler, Ibis, 1908, p. 227, 1909, p. 394 
Suakim district ; Oates and Reid, Cat. B. Eggs B. M. iv. p. 292, 
pl. xii. fig. 15 (1905). 
Laniarius eruentus, Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii. p, 152 (1883); Ogilvie-Grant, 
This, 1904, p. 265 S. Abyssinia. 
Pelicinius cruentus, Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 570 (1908). 
Malaconotus roseus, Jard. and Selby, Ill. Orn. (2) pl. 30, g¢ (1839) 
“ West Africa.”- 
Telephonus pictus, Licht. Nom. p. 11 (1854) nom. nud. 
Adult male. Upper parts, including the two centre tail-feathers, pale 
brown, with a very slight rosy shade on the crown; second pair of tail- 
feathers uniform blackish brown, and the four outer pairs black, with broad 
pure white ends; head fading into white on sides of forehead, lores, cheeks 
and lower half of ear-coverts; under surface of quills dusky, with whitish 
inner margins; under wing-coverts white near the bend of the wing, shading 
towards the body into yellowish isabelline like the axillaries, flanks, thighs 
and under tail-coverts; chin, front of neck and breast white, with a large 
patch of rosy pink down the centre of the throat and chest, but hardly reach- 
ing to the chin. Ivis pearl grey; bill dusky; feet greenish-horny. Total 
length 9:8 inches, culmen 0:85, wing 3°7, tail 4:7, tarsus 1-2. Amba, ¢, 
18. 8. 68 (Blanford). 
Adult female. Differs only in having no red on the throat; chin and 
upper throat white, surrounded by a black gorget extending from the gape 
over the crop and widening out on the lower throat, below which is a patch 
of rosy pink on the chest. Bill blackish, fading into grey on the lower 
mandible. Wing 3:6 inches. Koomalee, ?, 14. 2. 68 (Blanford). 
The Abyssinian Rosy-patched Shrike ranges northward 
from Shoa and southern Abyssinia into Bogosland, and up 
