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black eye-streak, and has crescentic marks on the breast 

 as in L. cristatus, &c. The tail also is dusky. In all there 

 is a sub-obsolete banding of the rectrices. Dimensions : — 



Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Bill from front. 



84. L. collurio, L. 



Enneoctonus collv/rio, Eiipp. Syst. Uebers. No. 211. 



Not common. The only specimen I obtained was shot 

 on the coast in August. 



85. L. rufus, Brisson. 



PL enl. 9, f. 2.— Eiipp. Syst. Uebers. No. 317. 



Only seen on the highlands, where it is rare. 



86. L. nubicus, Licht. 



Liohtenstein, Verz. d. Doubl. p. 47. — Hemp, and Ehr., Symb. Phys. 

 L. personatus, Termn. PI. CoL 25, f. 2. — Eiipp. Syst. Uebers. 

 No. 218. 



Seen occasionally about Komayli in January and 

 February, and in the lower Lebka valley iu August. It 

 appeared to leave the tropical region in the iatermediate 

 period, and I did not meet with it in the highlands. 



87. Laniarius aethiopicus (Gm.). 



Merle noir et blanc d' Abyssinia, Buff. Hist. Nat. des Ois. t. iiL 



p. 406 (1775 edit.).— Ibid, tome iv. p. 123 (1777). 

 Turdus (sthiopicus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i part ii. p. 824. — Latham, 



Ind. Om. i. p. 357.— Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. x. p. 237. 

 Lanius ferrugineus, var. Stanley ; Salt's Journey, App. p. 51. 

 L. cethiopicus, Vieill. Tab. Enc. et Meth. Ois. p. 731, part. — Eiipp. 



Neu. Wirb. p. 32. 

 Telophorus athiopicus, Eiipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 50, t. xxiii. — Gu6rin, 



Eev. Zool. 1843, p. 161.— Ferr. et Gal. Voy. en Abyss, iii. 



195.— Atlas, pi. 4. 



Iris reddish brown, bill black, legs bluish grey. 



