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juid ("omplicatedly intcrdioitatc that it seems iin[)()ssil)le to draw any 

 linos of generic (li\ision. Even color, on which some writers rely to 

 separate these g-roups, fails as a character. The proper course appears 

 to be the mergence of all into the genus Lanias. 



LANIUS COLLURIO Linnaeus. 



Laniiis collurlo Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., I, 1758, p. 94 (Eurojic [type local- 

 ity, Sweden]). 



One specimen, an adult female in perfect plumage, from Maranu, 

 Movmt Kilimanjaro, at 5,000 feet, April 4, 1888. 



LANIUS ISABELLINUS Hemprich and Ehrenberg. 



Lanms imbellinus Hempkicii an<l P]nKENHEH(i. Syinb. PhvH., I, 182(S, fol. e, note 

 ( Gum fudam , Arabia ) . 



One adult male from Mount Kilimanjaro, 5,000 feet, December 29, 

 1889. It seems to ]>e identical with birds from central Asia. "Bill 

 dark horn-brown above, lower mandil)le white, black at tip; feet 

 black." 



LANIARIUS ABBOTTI Richmond. 



LnniariuK (thhntli Richmond, Auk, XIY, 18i»7, p. ItU (Mount Kilimanjaro, East 



Africa). 

 Malacutiotiix niainiiiu/i Shelley, Bull. Brit. (.)rn. Clul), YIII, No. LX, February, 



1899, p. XXXV (Mambwe district, British Central Africa). 



The only specimen ot)tained l)y Doctor Abbott is the one from 

 which Doctor Richmond described this pretty species. It is an adult 

 male, from Mount Kilimanjaro, at 5,000 feet, Octol)er 18, 1889. 

 "Iris red." 



There s(MMns to ])e little doubt that the present species is identical 

 with jSlahtconotua iiianvingl Shelley, as Doctor Reichenow has already 

 indicated." It differs from Laniarhis nigrlfrovx Reichenow* in its 

 orange instead of yellow throat; its orange in place of golden brownish 

 breast; and in the greater extent of the black band on the sides of the 

 head, which in ahhott! involves the entire orbital and auricular regions. 



The genus CJdorophoneus Cabanis'' appears to be inseparable from 

 L<uiiariu,s unless (juite arbitrary color characters be requisitioned, for 

 there are no obvious structural differences, nor, indeed, does Doctor 

 Reichenow adduce any save the clearly invalid one of a stouter bill 

 for Lanidriiis.'' Mr. Neumaim's C(»<ni(>i>h.<meu>>' is still less tenable, 

 being simply a further rehnemcnt of CJdoi'oplioneus purely on grounds 

 of coloration. 



« Vogel Africas, II, 190?., p. .%0. 



''Ornith. Monatsber., 1896, \i. 95 (Marangu, Mount Kilimanjaro). 



cMus. Hein., I, 1850, p. 70. 



''Vogel Africas, II, 1903, p. 571. 



«Journ. f. Ornith., 1899, p. 392 (type, Laniiis nni/licnlur (iray). 



