Birds of Gazaland, Southern Rhodesia. A7 
inside measurement. It is composed externally of dry weed- 
stems, a small frond of bracken, and, about the upper 
portion, a liberal allowance of spiders’ webs, and is lined with 
fine roots. The full clutch consists of three eggs, white in 
ground-colour and irregularly streaked, spotted, and pencilled, 
chiefly about the larger end and occasionally in the form of 
a zone, with brown, dark or pale, yellowish or reddish (more 
usually the latter), and similar but paler underlying markings 
of grey, usually purplish in tone. In size they vary from 
23°5 to 26 mm. in length and from 17°5 to 19 mm. in breadth. 
42, TrLepHonus aNcuiut#. Anchieta’s Bush-Shrike. 
Telephonus anchiete Gad. Cat. B. viii. p. 129. 
T shot a single specimen of this bird, a female, on the 
Lower Zona in November last ; it was sitting on the top of 
a small tree by the water’s edge. Length in the flesh 7:19 
inches. The crop contained two dragon-flies. 
The species is new to the South-African fauna. 
43. Dryoscorus cusia. Lesser Puff-back Shrike. 
One of our bolder Shrikes, commonly met with in the 
open woods and, in winter, in small flocks, which occasionally 
attach themselves for a time to the Drongo regiment, and 
search for their food both amongst the higher branches and 
near the ground. The crops examined contained beetles, 
larvee, and grasshoppers. 
44. Dryoscorus curratus. Hartlaub’s Shrike. 
The commonest of our Bush-Shrikes, with the possible 
exception of Telephonus senegalus, frequenting especially 
grass-jungle country and the denser thickets in the kloofs 
and on the ant-heaps. I have not seen or heard of it in any 
of the larger forest-patches, though it occurs in the dense 
growth which skirts them. The crops examined contained 
locusts, grasshoppers, and beetles. 
45. Laniarius quapricotor. [our-coloured Bush-Shrike. 
I have seen only two examples of this handsome Shrike. 
The first was a female trapped on the nest in December. 
The nest was a rough structure of small twigs, about two feet 
