44 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM VOL.73 



RHINOPOMASTUS MINOR CABANISI (DeSIippi) 



WHITE NILE SCIMITAR BILL 



A bird in fine condition was brought in on July 3. It is the sec- 

 ond in two months, the first not being accepted. It was not at 

 all shy and threw its minced meat all over the place. I can not 

 definitely say it ate any, though I think it did. Three days later 

 this bird died. (Dodoma, 9 vii. 26.) 



EUROCEPHALUS RUEPPELLI BOHMI Zedlitz 



TANGANYIKA WHITE-HEADED SHRIKE 



This species, so common in the thorn bush around Dodoma, would 

 not feed on minced meat and was therefore released. (Dodoma^ 

 viii. 26.) 



UROLESTES AEQUATORIALIS Reichenow 



EQUATORIAL LONG-TAILED SHRIKE 



A pair of these birds were collected for locality record and their 

 stomachs found to contain grasshoppers. Fairly common. (Saranda, 

 14. vii. 26.) 



LANIARIUS FUNEBRIS FUNEBRIS (Hartlaub) 



LARGE GRAY-BLACK SHRIKE 



One or two brought in each month, none of which survived. 

 (Dodoma, viii. 26.) 



CORVUS ALBUS P. L. S. Muller (SCAPULATUS Authors) 

 WHITE-BREASTED CROW 



These handsome crows are the most conspicuous large birds in 

 Dodoma town and vicinity. They frequent the garbage dumps and 

 slaughterhouse and in return for their usefulness as scavengers are 

 protected. By offering sixpence each for them a steady stream of 

 birds, at the rate of one or two a day, came in, until we had 33 at 

 the end of the month and refused to purchase any more. 



They are hardy in captivity, eating raw meat or dead birds and 

 rats with avidity. Before giving them their favorite fare, a plate of 

 rice would be put in each cage of crows and they would take it — 

 apparently under protest, as the plates were very rarely cleaned 

 up. Grass and not sand is advisable in the cages, otherwise the 

 birds drop their meat in the sand and either refuse to eat it or eat it 

 covered with sand, which can hardly be good for them. (Dodoma, 

 vi. 26.) 



CORVULTUR ALBICOLLIS (Latham) 

 WHITE-NECKED RAVEN 



What has been said of the white-breasted crow's diet applies 

 equally well to that of these larger birds, easily distinguished from 

 the former by the absence of white on the breast. It is a good plan 

 to furnish both species with a skull, some ribs of meat, or other bones 



