146 BIBDS 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 Strike, 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. R. B. Sharpe.— Ed.J 



182. LaniariuS sticturus, Finsch & Hartl. Chapman's Shrike. 



Laniarms sticturus, Finsch & Hartlaub's Vogel Ost-Airika'e, 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. PHnsch 

 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.J 



183. Dryoscopus Cubla (Shaw). Cubla Shrike. 



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



Dryoscopus cuhla, Strickland & Sclater, Birds Damor., 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 



