442 LANIOTURDUS TORQUATUS 
be heard at almost any time of the day. When singing the 
bird perches amongst the foliage of some tree usually high 
and out of sight.” 
In the British Museum this species is represented from 
the following localities :— 
Camaroon—River Ja (Bates); Portuguese Congo—Chis- 
sambo (Petit); Belgian Congo—Aruwimi River (Jameson) ; 
Angola—N’ Dalla Tando (Ansorge). 
Genus XII. LANIOTURDUS. 
Bill black, rather long and somewhat flattened being nearly as broad as 
deep at the nostrils; nostrils linear, with a well marked operculum and 
entirely exposed; a few strong rictal-bristles; wing long for the size of the 
bird but rounded ; primaries 3 to 5 longest, 2 shorter than 9, 1 fairly long ; 
all the quills with their bases and tips white; tail square, very short, less 
than half the length of the wing, white with a few black terminal patches ; 
tarsi and feet blackish, and when outstretched the latter reach well beyond 
the end of the tail. 
Type. 
Lanioturdus, Waterhouse in Alexander’s Exp. Int. Afr. 
Wy ie A (USS) 6 oo 8 5 0 Oo dt Oe OTM 
Moquinus, Bp. Comptes Rend. xlii. p. 820 (1856) . . . LZ. torquatus. 
Hypsipus, Sundey. Av. Meth. Tent. p. 24 (1872) . . . JZ. torquatus. 
The genus is represented by a single species which ranges from Benguella 
into Damaraland. 
Lanioturdus torquatus. 
Lanioturdus torquatus, Waterhouse in Alexander’s Exp. Int; Afr. App. 
p. 264 (1838) Damaraland ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iy. p. 237 (1879) ; 
Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 717 (1896); Stark and Sclat. Faun. 8. Afr. 
ii. p. 45, figs. 11, 12 (1901); Sharpe, Handl. B. iii. p. 233 (1901) ; 
Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 475 (1903). 
Platystira albicauda, Strickl. Contr. Orn. 1852, p 144 Damaraland. 
Moquinus albicaudus, Bp. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1857, p. 52, pl. 5. 
Moquinus tandonus, Bp. C. R. 1856, p. 820 Damaraland. 
Adult. Frontal band extending back to above the eyes white, like the 
nape, sides of neck, chin and throat; crown, lores, ear-coverts and a band 
round the nape black; back and scapulars lead-grey, with bold white, 
