EUROCEPHALUS RUEPPELLI 447 
Exton remarks that it “keeps much to the open forest and 
is very shy and wary.” Messrs. T. Ayres and Jameson met 
with these Shrikes along the Limpopo and Tati rivers and 
Chubb found the species rare at Bulawayo, where the stomach 
of one examined contained beetles. 
The eggs of this Shrike in the British Museum, taken by 
Andersson at Otjimbinque, have been described as “ of a rather 
narrow oval shape and devoid of gloss. They are of a pale 
ereenish-grey colour, spotted and blotched all over with 
greyish brown, slate colour and lavender.” Average measure- 
ment 11 x O78. Nehrkorn likens them in colouring to 
those of our House Sparrow, while Bucknill, describing an 
ege taken by P. Krantz at Matlabas in north-west Transvaal, 
writes: “ Ground colour soft white with sub-surface splashings 
of transparent appearance of grey lilac and drab, and super- 
ficial over-splashes of pleasant olive-green, chiefly towards 
the obtuse end. Size 1°10 x 0°85.” 
The British Museum contains examples of this species 
from the following localities: Transvaal—Marico (Ayres) ; 
S. Rhodesia—Tati (Oates, Jameson and Buckley), Makalaka 
(Bradshaw), Bulawayo (Chubb), Hunyani River (Clark) ; 
German S. W. Africa—Otjimbinque (Andersson); Angola— 
Capangombe (Anchieta) and Katumbela (Sala). 
Eurocephalus rueppelli. 
Eurocephalus rueppelli, Bp. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1853, p. 440 Shoa; 
Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iii. p. 280 (1877); Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 689 
(1896) ; Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 526 (1903) ; O.-Grant, Ibis, 1904, 
p. 267 S. Abyssinia ; Erlanger, J. f. O. 1905, p. 689 N. H. Afr.; 
Witherby, Ibis, 1905, p. 519 Somaliland ; Bannerman, Ibis, 1910, 
p. 304 Somaliland ; p. 691 Kilimanjaro; Sjostedt, Kilimandjaro- 
Meru Exped. i. p. 112 (1910) ; Koenig, Ber. V. Intern. Orn. Kongr., 
1910, p. 511 Mongalla. 
Eurocephalus anguitimens riippelli, Neum. J. f. O. 1905, p. 215 Shoa. 
Eurocephalus anguitimens (non Smith), Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 53, 
pl. 27 (1845) Shoa. 
