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d?, With white on the sides of the head; wing 
feathers with no subterminal dark portion. 
c8. The white on the sides of the head extending 
round the eye and forming a patch behind 
the ear-coyerts . . monterrt. 
d®, The white on the face ai the head ioaPaell 
to a loreal band in front of the eye. 
a*, With no trace of chestnut on the crop; 
wing50 .. . catharoxanthus. 
b+. With a trace of Ebest on ihe: one 
wing 48 . . poliocephalus. 
c+, With the crop faintly Enel distinctly peas 
with chestnut; wing 4:5. . hypopyrrhus. 
d*. With the crop oes ety saan ranked 
off from the yellow throat; wing 4:2 . . approximans. 
b. Under parts olive like the back; throat grey. . . . gladiator. 
Malaconotus poliocephalus. 
Lanius poliocephalus, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 45 (1823) Senegambia. 
Laniarius poliocephalus, Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii. p. 156 (1883); Ogilvie- 
Grant, Ibis. 1908, p. 288. 
Malaconotus poliocephalus, Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 777 (1896); Sharpe, 
Handl. B, iv. p. 289 (1903). 
Malaconotus poliocephalus poliocephalus, Neum. J. f. O. 1906, p. 156. 
Lanius olivaceus (non Shaw), Vieill. N. Dict. xxvi. p. 135 (1818) Senegal. 
Malaconotus olivaceus, Swains. B. W. Afr. i. p. 237, pl. 22; Reichen. 
Vog. Afr. ii. p. 601 (1903), 
Malaconotus blanchoti, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 161 (1826) Senegal. 
Vanga ictera, Cuv. R. An. p. 352 (1829) Senegal. 
Laniarius icterus, Sharpe, P.Z.S. 1870, p. 148, pl. 13, fig. 2. 
Laniarius perspicillatus, Reichen. J. f. O. 1894, p. 36 Buea, Camaroon. 
La Piegriéche Blanchot, Levaill. Ois. d’Afr. vi., p. 122, pl. 285 (1808). 
Subspecies Malaconotus catharoxanthus. 
Malaconotus catharoxanthus, Neumann, J. f. O. 1899, p. 391 Bongo, 
Bahr el Ghazal Prov. ; Sharpe, Handl. B. iv. p. 290 (1903). 
Malaconotus monteiri catharoxanthus, Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 601 
(1903). 
Laniarius poliocephalus catharoxanthus, Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1904, p. 266 
Hiressa, Abyssinia. 
Malaconotus poliocephalus, Butler, Ibis, 1905, p. 329 Gallabat, Sudan. 
