146 BIRDS OF DAMARA LAND. 



ticularly shy, is somewhat difficult to obtain, from the 

 nature of its resorts also that it utters pleasant ringing 

 notes. 



The bill and claws are black, the legs and feet 

 brownish. 



[Mr. Andersson's last collection contained two examples of 

 this Shrike, one from Lake Ngami, the other from the river 

 Cunene : in the first of these the rectrices were wholly black, as 

 is usual in this species ; in the second (a male, obtained on the 

 25th of June, 1867) they are all black except the exterior pair, 

 which have a very narrow white tip to the outer web, a variation 

 which I have not met with in any other individuals of this 

 species. Both of these specimens are now in the collection of 

 Mr. K. B. Sharpe. ED.] 



182. Laniarius stictlims, Finsch & Hartl. Chapman's Shrike. 



Laniarius sticturus, Finsch & Hartlaub's Vb'gel Ost-Afrika's, p. 342, 



pi. 5. fig. 1. 

 Tchagra sticturus, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 6042. 



[As the type specimen of this bird is stated by Drs. Finsch 

 and Hartlaub, loc. cit., to have been brought from Lake Ngami 

 by Mr. Chapman, I here include it ; but I have not found any 

 specimen of it in Mr. Andersson's collections, nor any reference 

 to it in his notes. ED.] 



183. Dryoscopus cubla (Shaw). Cubla Shrike. 



Le Cubla, Levaillant's Ois. d'Afr. pi. 72. 



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



1852, p. 145. 



Laniarius cubla, Layard's Cat. No. 320. 

 Dryoscopus cubla, Gray's Hand -list of Birds, No. 6018. 

 Sharpe's Cat. No. 454. 



I have observed this Shrike very sparingly in Damara 

 Land, where I met with it first at Okamabute, and 



