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105. Lantarius GamBensis, Licht. 
Dryoscopus gambensis, Hartl. W. Afr. p. 110. 
—— cubla, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 62. no. 226; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 329. 
Malaconotus malzacii, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 384; Brehm, Habesch, p. 215. no. 75. 
a. §? Bejook. July 16 (no. 1283). 
6. $. Bejook. July 16 (no. 1850). 
c. 3. Bejook. July 18 (no. 759). 
d. 2. Waliko. July 20 (no. 1757). 
e. d. Waliko. August 2 (no. 1102). 
f. &. Maragaz. July 27 (no. 861). 
g- 2. Maragaz. July 27 (no. 985). 
Long. al. Caud. Culm. Tars. 
8" 5-3" 7” 2” 8-2” 11” ea 10”. . . Ss. 
3.4 -3 «5 2 9 73 Sy we oe Qe 
All writers on North-east African Ornithology have mistaken this species for the 
L. cubla of Levaillant, which does not occur in that portion of Africa. Both species 
are much alike; but L. gambensis has the rump tinged with grey, and is always larger. 
I have compared numerous specimens from Western and North-eastern Africa, and find 
them quite similar. Von Heuglin’s undescribed Malaconotus malzacti from the Bahr 
el Abiad, of which I have inspected the type in the Vienna Museum, is undoubtedly a 
female of L. gambensis.—O. F. 
[Iris orange-red; beak black, or slate-blue; legs and feet dark blue-grey. 
I only met with this bird on the river Anseba, at Waliko, Bejook, and Maragaz, 
where it was plentiful. Contents of stomach, coleoptera. If no. 1283 is a male, it is 
doubtless a young bird.—/. J. 
106. Lantarius 2ruiopicus (Vieill.). 
Telophorus ethiopicus, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. pp. 50 et 62. no. 222.t. 23; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 328 ; 
id. Fauna d. Roth. Meer. no. 1384; Brehm, Habesch, p. 215. no. 74. 
Laniarius ethiopicus, Finsch & Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 343. no. 160. 
a. Sooroo. April 5 (no. 680). 
6. 9, Waliko. August 4 (no. 734). 
[Iris brown; beak black; legs and feet slate-colour. 
Common from Senafé to the plain of Koomaylee, also from the Anseba to Ain, in 
pairs. It differs from the true Shrikes in its habit of sneaking among the lower 
branches of bushes, and is frequently seen on the ground. It has two notes—each, I 
fancy, peculiar to one sex; but Iam not sure; anyhow the one appears always to answer 
the other. One note consists of two bell-like whistles, repeated consecutively at 
intervals, not unlike that of the Bell-bird of Brazil; the answer is a grating noise, 
sometimes resembling rapid cracking of sticks. Indeed, in the jungle I have more 
than once turned to see what might be coming. —W. J.] 
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