EUROCEPHALUS ANGUITIMENS 445 
strongly developed, reaching as far forward as the nostrils; wing pointed ; 
third primary the longest ; second only 0:3 inch shorter, and first more than 
half the length of fourth. Tail rounded and shorter than the wing. Tarsi 
and feet strong, the former with the sides and back scaled. 
Type. 
Eurocephalus, Smith, Rep. Exp. C. Afr. App. p. 52 
(GiS50) ae eee Creuse rat ls) «Br anguitimens: 
Chetoblemma, Swains. Class. B. ii. p. 219 (1837) . EH. anguitimens. 
The genus is confined to Tropical and South Africa and comprises two 
species. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Gebintireback DLOWNN 5) | 6 2 + «© « « « « « « Gnguitimens. 
b. Rump, upper tail-coverts and base of tail white. . . . rweppelli. 
Eurocephalus anguitimens. (PI. 56, fig. 2.) 
Kurocephalus anguitimens, Smith, Rep. Exp. C. Afr. App. p. 52 (1836) 
N. of Latakoo ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iii. p. 279 (1877) ; Shelley, B. 
Afr. i. No. 688 (1896); Nehrkorn, Cat. Hiers. p. 21 (1899) egq; 
Stark and Scl. Bds. 8. Afr. ii. p. 13 (1901); Reichen. Vég. Afr. ii. 
p- 525 (1903); Oates and Reid, Cat. B. Eggs, Brit. Mus. iv. p. 266 
(1905); Sparrow, J. S. Afr. Orn. Union, 1905, p. 11; Buckunill, 
ibid. 1908, p. 77 eggs ; Chubb, Ibis, 1909, p. 160 Bulawayo. 
Cheetoblemma leucocephala, Swains. An. in Menag. p. 282 (1838). 
Adults. Forehead, crown and a broad band down the back of the neck 
white; sides of head dark brown, with the cheeks white; back, abdomen, 
thighs and under tail-coverts whitey-brown; entire wings and tail, both 
above and below, dark brown: chin, throat and chest white. ‘Iris dark 
hazel, bill and feet black.’’ Total length 10°5 inches, culmen to frontal 
feathers 0°60, wing 5:6, tail 4:2, tarsus 1:0. Tati, ¢, 23. 2 (F. Oates) and 
9, wing 5:5. 
Immature. Differs in having the sides of the head and neck white 
mottled with dark brown; feathers of wing with pale edges; breast and 
under tail-coverts white tinted with brown; thighs darker brown. Bill, 
feet and claws brown. S. Africa (A. Smith). 
The Southern White-crowned Shrike ranges over south- 
west Africa from central Angola and the Zambesi to the 
Bechuanaland districts of Cape Colony and the western 
Transvaal. 
