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120. Laxius humeralis. 



Lattius humeralis Stanley j Ogilvie-Grant^ Nov. Zool ix. 

 p. 4G6 (1902). 



liscus humeriiUs Shellev & Sclater, B. Afr. v. pt. ii. p. 219 

 (1912). 



A considerable series of Stanley's Fiscal Shrike was col- 

 lected near Addis Abbal>a, also in Jimma, Gofa, KuUo, 

 and Lake Zvvai district. In Gofa it was found breeding on 

 Alba Hill at an elevation of 11,000 feet, and a half-grown 

 female specimen in first plumage was procured on the 6th of 

 July. Young were also obtained in May and June, at lower 

 elevations, while a young male killed in October is beginning 

 to assume adult plumage on the neck and mantle. 



121. Lanius excubitouius. 



Lanius excubitorius Des Murs .; Shelley & Schiter, B. Afr. 

 V. pt. ii. p. 264 (1912). 



All the specimens of the Grey-backed Fiscal Shrike in 

 the present collection have but little black at the tips of the 

 outer pair of tail-feathers, the amount var\ing from about 

 half an inch to one inch in length. 



They are therefore, as Shelley and Sclater have pointed 

 out, typical L. excubitorius with which L. e. inter cedens 

 Neumann I'rom the Hawash Valley is entiiely synonymous 

 (c/. J. f. O. 1905, p. 228). 



The species was widely distributed along the lake country 

 from Addis Al)baba to Lake Stefanie. An interesting 

 example in immature plumnge was killed at Lake Abbaya on 

 the 8th of September. 



122. TSCHAGKA JAMESI. 



Telophonus jamesi (Shelley) ; Neumann, J. f. O. 1907, 

 p. 368. 



Tschayr a jamesi Shelley & Sclater, B. Afr. v. pt. ii. p. 383 

 (1912). 



James' Bush-shrike was met with only at the north end of 

 Lake Stefanie. We have not examined examples of 

 Professor Neumann's T. j. hismaijensis from the coast 

 districts of southern Somaliland, but his T. j. mandanus from 



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