402 TELOPHORUS ZEYLONUS 
Telophorus zeylonus. 
Turdus zeylonus, Linn. 8. N. i. p. 297 (1766) Cape of Good Hope. 
Pelicinius zeylonus, Reichen. Vog. Afr, ii. p. 568 (1903). 
Turdus gutturalis, P. L. 8. Mill. S. N. Suppl. p. 144 (1776) Bengal !. 
Pelicinius gutturalis, Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 762 (1896); Sharpe, Handl. 
B. iv. p. 292 (1903) ; Clarke, Ibis, 1904, p. 526 Bloemfontein; Sclater, 
This, 1911, p. 288. 
Laniarius gutturalis, W. Scl. and Stark, Bds. 8. Afr. ii. p. 33, fig. 9 (1901) ; 
Shortridge, J. 8. Afr. Orn. Union, 1905, p. 22 Hanover ; L. Taylor, 
ibid, 1906, p. 66 Irene; C. Taylor, ibid. 1907, p. 20 Hrmelo ; 
Haagner and Ivy, ibid. 1907, p. 89 Albany. 
Lanius bacbakiri, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 319 (1809) ex Levaillant. 
Laniarius bacbakiri, Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii. p. 162 (1883). 
Lanius ornatus, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 45 (1823) Cape of Good Hope. 
Telophorus collaris, Swains. Faun. Bor. Amer. p. 481 (1831). 
Le Bacbakiri, Levaill. Ois. d’Afr. ii. p. 65, pl. 67 (1799). 
Adult male and female. Forehead, crown and hinder half of neck lead- 
grey, margined from the nostril to above the eye with a bright yellow eye- 
brow ; remainder of upper parts uniform green when the wings and tail are 
closed; the pair of green centre tail-feathers are slightly darker than the 
back and have many very obscure dusky bars; remainder of tail black with 
yellow ends increasing in size towards the outer feathers and generally with 
a wash of green on the outer edges of the yellow spot; wing-lining and 
under wing-coverts dusky grey with some yellow along the bend of the 
wing ; under parts bright yellow, with a tinge of olive on the flanks and 
thighs; a black patch covering the lores extends as a narrow band under 
the eye and down the sides of the throat and widens out over the whole of 
the lower throat and crop into a gorget. Iris brown; bill black; legs dark 
slate. Total length 9:0 inches, culmen 1:0, wing 3°8, tail 3°7, tarsus 1-4. 
Mossel Bay, 3, 11. 4. 73 (F. Oates). 
Immature. Differs only in the colouring of the head, neck and chest ; 
no eyebrow; forehead, crown and hinder half of neck green; sides of head 
grey ; no black gorget; cheeks white like the chin and upper half of the 
throat, which gradually shade into olive-tinted yellow on the lower throat, 
crop, and sides of fore-chest. Iris brown; bill dark horn-colour fading into 
flesh-colour on the basal half of the lower mandible; feet slate grey. Wing 
3:7. Wellington, 26. 1. 74 (Shelley). 
The Bacbakiri Shrike ranges over the greater part of 
South Africa from Benguella to Cape Town, and thence east 
to Durban and Wakkerstroom in the south-east Transvaal. 
