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Lanius ANTINOEII. 



Lanius aniinorii Salvad. ; Sharpe, untea, p. 304 ; Graut, Ibis, 

 1901, p. 287 ; id. & Eeid, t. c. p. 642. 



a, 6. d ? ad. Gorili, 3000 feet, 25 miles west o£ Egder, 

 Nov. 8, 1899. 



c. $ ad. Lake Stefanie, Dee. 12, 1899. 



Lanius nubicus. 



Lanius nubicus Licht. : Grant, Ibis, 1900,p. 149, 1901, p. 288. 

 a. 5* imm. Magois country, Feb. 8, 1900. 

 A female of the last year in very worn plumage. It is in full 

 moult. 



Lanius exoubitorius. 



Lanius excuhitorius Des Murs ; Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 148, 1901, 

 p. 287; id. & Eeid, t. c. p. 641. 



a. S ad. North end of Lake Eudolf, Dec. 15, 1899. 

 h. (S ad. Magois country, Jan. 30, 1900. 

 c. J; d, e. 2 ad. Magois country, Feb. 7, 1900. 

 /, $ ad. Akara country, Feb. 12", 1900. 



Lanius paradoxus. 



Lanius pomeranus (nee 8cop.), Hawker, Ibis, 1899, p. 68. 

 Lanius senator paradocvus (Brehm), Hartert, INov. Zool. vi. 

 p. 417 (1899) ; Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 150. 

 a. cJ ad. Magois country, Jan. 28, 1900. 

 6. S ad. Magois country, Feb. 7, 1900. 



c. S imm. Akara country, Feb. 12, 1900. 



d. $ . Lario, March 1, 1900. 



Mr. Hartert (J. c.) has written a very interesting account of the 

 forms of the Woodchat Shrike and its allies. He recognizes four 

 races of Lanius senator, as he calls the European Woodchat Shrike, 

 all of which races are well represented in the series in the British 

 Museum, and I am thus able to appreciate the value of Mr.Hartert's 

 remarks. The Mediterranean form, which he calls L. senator 

 pectoralis, has, as a rule, a lighter chestnut head and more buff on 

 the under surface and on the rump. This is the Woodchat which 

 goes to Senegambia, but I doubt very much whether, when a full 

 series is compared, any permanent difference will be found between 

 the buff-breasted L. pectoralis and the white-breasted L.pomeranus 

 vel L. senator: the buff tint may after all be an evanescent character 

 as the season wears on. Lanius hadius seems to me quite re- 

 cognizable as a species, though Mr. Hartert's mention of a 

 Corsican AVoodchat without a white speculum is rather puzzling. 



Lanius paradoxus Brehm, which is reinstated as a distinct form 

 by Mr. Hartert, turns out to be quite a recognizable species, with 

 a white base to the centre tail-feathers. We have a good series of 

 this bird in the British Museum, but the specimens have beeji 



