collected in East Africa. 601 



106. Telephonus senegalus. 



Telephonus erythropterus (nee Shaw), Fischer, J. f. O. 

 1885, p. 130 (Bagamoyo to Lamu) . 



Telephonus senegalensis, Shelley, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 361 

 (Taveta, Teita). 

 No. 20. S ad. Marasie, Teita, Dee. 13, 1888. 



107. Telephonus jamesi. 



Telephonus jamesi, Shelley, Ibis, 1888, p. 300 (Manda 



Island) . 



No. 184. ? ad. Turquel, Siik, Jan. 19, 1890.— Irides brown, 

 one with six white specks on the edge of the pupil, the 

 other with five ; feet pale horn-blue. Very plentiful in 

 the thin open bush. 



108. Prionops cristatus. 



Prionops poliocephalus {nee Sta.n\.), Fischer, J. f. O. 1885, 

 p. 130 (Massa). 



No. 170. ? ad. Turquel, Siik, Jan. 14, 1890. — Irides grey; 

 eyelids bright lemon-colour ; legs coral-red. Feeds on 

 beetles, grasshoppers, &c. Shot on the top of the hill. 

 No. 171. (J juv. Turquel, Jan. 14, 1890. — Legs more 



orange. 

 No. 210. ? ad. Turquel, Jan. 23, 1890.— Irides grey; eye- 

 lids bright yellow ; legs orange-yellow. 

 There seem to be two species of Prionops in Eastern 

 and North-eastern Africa, which have been confounded by 

 all writers on the genus. Mr. Jackson^s specimens all have 

 black wing-coverts, and only a slight edging of white on the 

 secondaries, which are also tipped with white. This is the 

 P. cristatus of Riippell. Stanley's Lanius polio cephalus, with 

 which Prionops cristatus is generally united, is an allied 

 species with white on the median and greater coverts, which 

 extends in a continuous white band down the secondaries. 



The full distribution of the two forms is at present un- 

 known, but in the British-Museum series and in the Shelley 

 collection the following localities are recorded : — 



P. cristatus. Abyssinia {Mus. Brit.), Bogos [Esler: Shelley 



