1 901 .j FROM DAKB RUDOLF /kJTD THE NTL1C. 615 



LABIUB ANTIXOB1I. 



Lanius antinorii Salvad. : Sharpe, antea, p. 3<>4; Grant, J bis. 

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



a, b. J9 ad. Grorili, 3000 feet. 25 miles west of Egder, 

 Nov. 8, 1809. 



e. 5 ad. Lake Stefanie, Dec. 12, 1899. 



LaJJIUS HTJBICUS. 



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

 a. 5> hum. Magoia country, Feb. 8, 1900. 

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

 moult. 



L.VKIUS EXCDBITOBIUS. 



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

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



a. 6 ad. North end of Lake Eudolf, Dec. 15, 1899. 

 /;. d ad. Magoia country, Jan. 30, 1900. 



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

 /. 2 ad- Akara country. Feb. 12, 1900. 



IiABlUS PARADOXUS. 



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

 Lanius senator paradoxus (Brehm), Hartert, Not. Zool. vi. 

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

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

 h. j ad. Magois country, Feb. 7, 1900. 

 e. 6 imm. Akara country, Feb. 12. 1900. 



d, $ . Lario, March 1, 1900. 



Mr. Hartert (/. 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 

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

 the under surface and on the rump. This i> the Woodchat which 

 goes to Senegambia, but 1 doubt very much whether, when a full 

 series Lb compared, any permanent difference will be found between 

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

 vel L. s. natori the buff tint may alter all be an evanescent character 

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

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

 Cormcan Woodchat without a white speculum is rather puzzling. 



Lanius paradoxus Brehm, which is reinstate. I as a distinct form 

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



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

 this bird in the British Museum, bul the specimens have been 



