396 TELOPHORUS 
sides of the body, thighs and under tail-coverts browner and of a less yellow 
shade. Iris brown, bill black, feet grey. Total length 8:1 inches, culmen 0°85; 
wing 3°7, tail 4:7, tarsus 1:3. British Hast Africa (Storey). 
Adult female. Differs from the male only in having the chin and upper 
throat white and therefore hardly separable from the female of FR. hilgerti. 
Wing 3:5, Nutu, 3. 8. 03 (Storey). 
The Masai Rosy-patched Shrike inhabits German and 
British East Africa. 
The species was discovered in its most southern known 
range at Loeru in the interior of German East Africa, by 
Fischer, who procured another specimen at Ugaia, on the 
eastern shores of Victoria Nyanza. It has also been obtained 
by Mr. Oscar Neumann at Kibaja not far from the type 
locality. 
The British Museum has a male and three females collected 
by C. B. Storey in British East Africa, one of which is labelled: 
Nutu, October 3, 1903. 
In Mr. Jackson’s collection are examples from Guaso 
Nyiro, north of Kenia, and from Maungu between Kilimanjaro 
and the coast, both in British East Africa. 
It appears to be a rare bird everywhere. 
Genus VII. THLOPHORUS. 
Type. 
Telophorus, Swains. Faun. Bor. Amer. p. 481 (1831). . . T. zeylonus. 
Resembling Chlorophoneus in all essential structural characters, and 
in its prevailing green upper parts, but distinguished by the presence of a 
black gorget in both sexes and by the under wing-coverts and lining of the 
quills never being bright yellow. 
This genus has been hitherto generally known as Pelicinius, but a 
reference to the Isis for 1826 will show that Boie’s type for this name is 
Laniws barbarus, Linn., so that Pelicinius is synonymous with Laniarius 
of Vieillot. The type of Telophorus of Swainson is given as Telophorus 
collaris of Swainson, which is synonymous with Lanius zeylonus of Linneus. 
