138 BIRDS OF DAMARA LAND. 



the colouring of the plumage between the specimens of 

 this species which I have obtained to the north of the 

 Elephant River and those which I have shot near Cape 

 Town : in the latter all the dark portions of the plumage 

 of the upper parts, wing, and tail are a very dark black- 

 brown, in fact almost black ; whilst in the former these 

 parts are of a very dark ashy brown, as in L. subcoronatus 



174. FlSCUS SllbcoronatuS (Smith). Coronetted Shrike. 

 Lanius subcoronatus, Smith's Zool. of S. Africa, pi. 68. 



Strickland & Sclater, Birds Damar., Contr. Orn. 



1852, p. 144. 



Andersson, in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 8. 



Layard's Cat. No. 307. 



Chapman's Travels in S. Afr., App. p. 393. 



Fiscus subcoronatus, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 5943. 

 Lanius subcoronatus, Sharpe's Cat. No. 481. 



This Shrike is common in the northern parts of Great 

 Namaqua Land, and also in Damara Land and the parts 

 adjacent to the east and north. Its mode of flight, 

 manners, and habits are identical with those of the pre- 

 ceding species. The irides are dark brown ; the bill 

 brown horn-colour, but livid at the base of the lower 

 mandible ; the legs and toes are blackish brown. 



175. Urolestes melanoleuCUS (Jard.). South-African Long- 

 tailed Shrike. 



Lanius melanokucus, Jardine & Selby's HI. Orn. vol. iii. pi. 115. 

 Lanius cissoides, Layard's Cat. No. 309. 



Lanius melanoleucus, Chapman's Travels in S. Afr., App. p. 394. 

 Urolestes melanokucus, Finsch & Hartlaub's Vogel Ost-Afrika's, 



p. 335. 

 Urolestes cissoides, Sharpe's Cat, No. 486. 



