NILAUS BRUBRU 451 
Nilaus brubru. 
Lanius brubru, Lath. Suppl. Indicis Orn. p. xx. (1801) ex Levaill. 
Nilaus brubru, Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 713 (1896); Stark and Scl. Bds. 
S. Afr. ii. p. 16 (1901); Reichen. Vég. Afr. ii. p. 538 (1903) ; Sharpe, 
Handl. B. iv. p. 802 (1903); W. L. Sclater, Ibis, 1905, p. 113 
Victorra Falls ; Sparrow, J. 8. Afr. Orn. Union, 1905, p. 11; L. E. 
Taylor, ibid. 1906, p. 66 Irene; Chubb, ibid. 1909, p. 68, 
Kham River; Swynnerton, Ibis, 1908, p. 48 Gazaland ; Chubb, 
Ibis, 1909, p. 162 Bulawayo; Sclater, Ibis, 1911, p. 284 N.-H. 
Transvaal. 
Nilaus afer brubru, Neumann, J. f. O. 1907, p. 364. 
Lanius capensis, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 327 (1809) ex Levaill. 
Nilaus capensis, Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii. p. 168, pl. 5, fig. 1 (1883). 
? Lanius frontalis, Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 41 (1844). 
Le Brubru, Levaill. Ois. d’Afr. ii. p. 85, pl. 71 (1799) Orange River. 
Adult. Crown black; back of neck, back and scapulars mottled black 
and white; wings black, with nearly the whole of the median-coverts white, 
and three of both the greater-coverts and secondaries very broadly edged 
with white, forming a longitudinal wing-band, the primaries with only 
narrow incomplete white edges; under wing-coverts and broad inner 
margins to the quills white, with a dusky black patch on the coverts near 
the primaries; tail with the centre four feathers entirely black; the re- 
mainder with white tips and a white patch toward the middle of their outer 
webs, largest on the outer feathers; forehead and a broad eyebrow, extend- 
ing back to the sides of the nape, white margined below by a black band 
beginning as a spot in front of the eye and widening out on the sides of the 
neck; under parts white, with a broad bright chestnut band on either side 
almost completely covering the sides of the breast; thighs mottled with 
black. Ivis brown, bill and feet dusky slate-colour. Total length 5°75 
inches, culmen 0:5, wing 3°35, tail 2:0, tarsus 0-9. Matabeleland, 3, 
29. 9. 73 (Buckley). 
Female. Differs in having the black parts of the head and mantle dusky 
brown, and the pale portion of the mantle and wings slightly shaded with 
rufous buff, and sometimes the throat with some fine black streaks; wing 
3°3. Otjimbinque, @ (Andersson). Young birds have the feathers of the 
head, upper tail-coverts, primary-coverts and the quills tipped with buff; 
under parts with distinct brownish black bars more or less numerous. 
The Southern Brubru ranges southward from the interior 
of Benguella and the Zambesi at Victoria Falls to the Orange 
River, and Natal where it is very rare. In Mossamedes speci- 
