LANIUS SUBCORONATUS. 
than the hinder toe. Claws of anterior toes long, slender, and slightly 
curved; the claw of hinder toe strong, and much curved. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Inch, Lines. 
Length from the tip of the bill to the 
point of the tail 8 6 
of the bill from the gape 
of the wings when folded . . . 
of the tail 4 6 
Length of the tarsus 
of the outer toe 
of the middle toe 
of the inner toe 
of the hinder toe 
Inch. Lines. 
The grey tint is stronger in the feynale than in the male, and the white is 
less clear, being generally tinged with yellow. 
The first specimen we obtained was killed near Latakoo, and many others were added to our 
collection as we proceeded to the northward, although we never found the species common in 
any of the districts we visited. When Lanius subcoronatus appeared, Lanius Collaris ceased 
to be found, and we had every reason to believe that the former held, to the northward of 
Latakoo, that place which the latter holds to the southward. We were familiar with L. 
subcoronatus in its native haunts long before we were aware that it was an undescribed species. 
We had always conceived it to be identical with Lanius Collaris , and it was not till one of our 
hunters killed a specimen by accident that we were convinced of the contrary. When flying, as 
well as when perched, the similarity of the two species is striking, and their manners and habits 
are identically the same. Both pounce upon their prey with the same hawk-like spirit, and move 
through the air with equal velocity ; both perch upon the summit of trees or shrubs, and there 
watch their prey or their enemies, and both impale what objects they capture, and are not able 
at the moment to consume, upon the long and powerful thorns of some favourite acacia tree 
L. subcoronatus differs from L. Collaris, first, in having a smaller bill, the oilmen of which is 
sharp, especially towards the frontal feathers ; secondly, in having the frontal feathers and eye- 
brows white instead of black, as is the case in L. Collaris ; it is also rather a smaller bird. 
