collected in East Africa. 599 



brown ; bill dark horn-blue ; legs born-blue. Saw 

 several in dense underwood in thick forest. 

 Although this specimen is immature, it seems to belong 

 to a species which is quite distinct from every other known 

 Laniarius, and when adult it will have a chestnut head, so 

 that its nearest ally will be L, luhderi of Reichenow. I could 

 find nothing like it in any of the museums of the Continent, 

 and Dr. Reichenow agrees with me as to its distinctness. The 

 rufous tail is also a strong character. 



I add a description of the type specimen : — 

 Immature female. General colour above olive-brown_, the 

 rump varied with concealed spots of white, which occur sub- 

 terminally on the feathers ; upper tail-coverts a little more 

 ashy than the back ; lesser wing-coverts ochreous brown ; 

 median coverts dusky, tipped with white, slightly tinged with 

 yellow, and forming a band ; greater coverts dusky blackish, 

 edged with rufous ochre, the inner ones with white; bastard 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, margined with 

 rufous ochre, the secondaries with olive, the inner ones 

 blackish, margined with olive or yellowish white ; tail-feathers 

 rufous brown, mottled with dusky, with blackish shafts, and 

 more or less dusky brown on the outer webs ; crown of head 

 dusky olive-brown, tinged with rufous ; lores, feathers above 

 the eye, sides of face, and ear-coverts black, washed and 

 obscured with ashy brown; cheeks and throat pale tawny 

 rufous, deepening on the fore neck, chest, and sides of body ; 

 the breast and abdomen whitish, washed with sulphur-yellow ; 

 flanks also slightly tinged with yellow ; thighs light tawny ; 

 under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 whitish, tinged with yellow ; quills below dusky, tawny buff 

 along the inner edge. Total length 7*3 inches, culmen 0*9, 

 wing 3'25, tail 2*8, tarsus 1'15. 



101. Laniarius erythrogaster. 



Laniarius erythrogaster (Cretzschm.) ; Reichen. J. f. O. 

 1887, p. 64 (Kagehi). 



Nos. 208, 209. ? ad. et imm. Turquel, Siik, Jan 27, 

 1890. — Irides pale yellow ; legs horn-blue. Plentiful 

 along the river. 



