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converging, bristles of the other Prionopine shrikes ; the bill at the base is 
quite exposed, and it resembles Eressornis retzii in colour. Eurocephalus 
and Nilaus are associated with the Prionopine shrikes on account of the 
scutellation of the tarsus, but apart from this character they differ widely 
and their relationship is obscure. 
I should arrange the species of South African shrikes as follows: 
Lanius minor = Lanioides minor. Reichenow’s species, L. luhherti {Journ. Orn. 
1906, p. 74) from S.W. Africa, can hardly be anything but a synonym of 
L. minor. 
L. collurio = Enneoctonus collurio. 
L. collaris — Fiscus collaris collaris (L.). Southern region. 
L. humeralis = F. collaris pyrrhostictus (Holub and Pelzeln). Highveld region. 
L. subcoronatus = F. collaris suhcoronatus (A. Smith). Desert country of north- 
west. 
Dryoscopus cubla cubla (Shaw). Temperate region. 
D. cubla hamatus Hartlaub. Tropical region. 
Laniarius atrococcineus . Dry thorn forests of tropical west. 
L. {Diplophonus) ferrugineus ferrugineus (Gm.). Southern region to Kaffraria. 
L. {Diplophonus) ferrugineus pondoensis Rbts. Pondoland. 
L. [Diplophonus] ferrugineus natalensis Rbts. Upper Natal. 
L. [Diplophonus) ferrugineus transvaalensis Rbts. Eastern escarpment bush 
and western bushveld of Transvaal. 
L. [Diplophonus) ferrugineus limpopoensis Rbts. Lower Limpopo. 
L. [Diplophonus) ferrugineus mosambicus Rchw. Lower Zambesi. 
L. [Diplophonus) ferrugineus guttatus (Swainson). Upper Zambesi. 
Chlorophoneus rubiginosus rubiginosus (Sund.). [C. maraisi W. L. Sclater is a 
synonym, cf. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. in. 380, 1905 and Ibis, 1911, p. 289.) 
Eastern Cape Province temperate forests to Zoutpansberg. 
C. rubiginosus bertrandi (Shelley). Recorded from Chirinda by Swynnerton 
[Ibis, 1907, p. 48). 
C. sulphureipectus similis (A. Smith). Dry thorn forests from E. Cape Prov. 
northwards on east. 
C. olivaceus olivaceus (Shaw). E. Cape to Natal. 
C. olivaceus taylori Rbts. [Ann. Transvaal Mus. iv. 178, 1914). Swaziland. 
Cosmophoneus abbotti (Richmond). Recorded by Swynnerton from Melsetter 
District [Ibis, 1908, p. 59) and in the Transvaal Museum collection from 
Woodbush. (In regard to the name of manningi, under which it has been 
recorded by Swynnerton, cf. Oberholser, Pr oc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxviii. 922.) 
Calophoneus quadricolor (Cass.) Dry thorn forests from Natal northwards in 
low country. 
Telophorus zeylonus zeylonus (L.) (cf . Shelley’s P. A frica, v. 396) . South of Tropics. 
T. zeylonus phanus (Hartert) (cf . Nov. Zool. xxvii. 451). Damaraland and Angola. 
Tschagra tschagra tschagra (Vieill.). E. Cape Province. 
T. tschagra natalensis Rchw. Natal. 
Harpolestes senegalus erythropterus (Shaw) . E. Cape to Limpopo. 
H. senegalus orientalis (Cab.) (cf. Oberholser, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxviii. 809, 
and Neumann, Journ. Orn. 1907, p. 376). 
Antichromus anchietae (Boc.). Tropical central west. 
Tschagroides australis australis (A. Smith). Transvaal. 
T. australis damarensis (Rchw.). Damaraland (cf. Orn. Monatsb. 1915, p. 120). 
T. congener (Rchw.). Lower Zambesi. 
Malaconotus olivaceus = M. hypopyrrhus Hartl. (cf. Shelley’s B. of Africa, v. 
409). 
