596 Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe on Birds 



No. 200. S ad. Turquel, Suk, Jan. 24, 1890. — Irides brown ; 

 egs black. Stomach contained part of a mouse and 

 large caterpillars, spiders, &c. 



I compared the specimen procured by Mr. Jackson with 

 the type of Lanius dorsalis in the Berlin Museum, and found 

 them absolutely identical. I give a full description of this 

 fine Shrike. 



Adult male. General colour above light grey, fading off 

 paler on the rump ; upper tail-coverts white ; scapulars w^hite ; 

 wing-coverts entirely black ; quills also black, with no white 

 tips to the secondaries ; the primaries white at the base, 

 forming a speculum, which is apparent on all but the first 

 short primary, where the white is confined to the inner web ; 

 the secondaries also white at the base, but not apparent; 

 four central tail-feathers black, the remainder tipped with 

 white, which increases in extent towards the outermost 

 feather, which is white along the outer web also ; crown of 

 liead, nape, hind neck, and upper mantle glossy black ; sides 

 of face, ear-coverts, and sides of neck also black ; cheeks and 

 under surface of body pure white, including the thighs and 

 under tail-coverts ; sides of breast grey, concealed by the 

 closed wing ; under wing-coverts w^hite, the lower primary- 

 coverts black, forming a patch ; axillaries black ; quills black, 

 white at the base. Total length 8-5 inches, culmen 0"7, wing 

 4-2, tail 3-65, tarsus 1-1. 



93. Lanius mackinnoni. (Plate XIII.) 



Lanius mackinnoni, Sharpe, antea, p. 444. 

 No. 93. S ad. Bugemaia, Oct. 14, 1889. 



Adult female. Gen eral colour above french-grey; scapulars 

 white, with grey bases ; wing-coverts entirely black ; quills 

 blackish or blackish brown ; upper tail-coverts grey, like the 

 back ; tail-feathers black, tipped with white on all but the 

 central feathers, the white tips more extensive on the outer 

 feathers ; crown of head grey, like the back ; forehead with a 

 line of hoary white along the base, extending backwards 

 above the eye, where it is contiuued as a white eyebrow ex- 

 tending above the ear-coverts ; lores, eyelid, sides of face, and 



