. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 130 :. superciliarj' region is entirely black; thus one of the points marked by du Bocage as differences between T. minutus and T. anchietce is of no importance. The absence of black on the mantle, however, separates T. anchicta' sufficiently ; and this separation is again sup- ported by the geographical distribution of the two species. Hah. Anchieta"s Bush-8hrike was first discovered in Angola (Pungo-Andongo), but has since been found on the east coast of Africa, opposite Zanzibar. Thiis this species probably ranges from Angola ri
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 130 :. superciliarj' region is entirely black; thus one of the points marked by du Bocage as differences between T. minutus and T. anchietce is of no importance. The absence of black on the mantle, however, separates T. anchicta' sufficiently ; and this separation is again sup- ported by the geographical distribution of the two species. Hah. Anchieta"s Bush-8hrike was first discovered in Angola (Pungo-Andongo), but has since been found on the east coast of Africa, opposite Zanzibar. Thiis this species probably ranges from Angola right across the continent to the Zanzibar coast. 10. DRYOSCOPUS*. Tvpe. Dryoscopus, Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 97-3 D. cubla. Hapalolophus, G. It. Gray, in Charlesicorth's Mac/. Nat. Hist, new p. 480 () .... D. cubla. Chaunonotus, id. op. cit. p. 487 D. sabinei. Rhyuchastatus, Bp. C. R. xxxviii. p. 535 (1854). D. Bill of Dryoscopus cubla. Bill considerably bent, hooked and notched; the proportion of height to breadth varying much even iu one and the same species, iu D. cuhJa, leading thus to the broad-billed D. sabinei, for which the generic term Chaunonotus was invented. Nostrils oval, in front of a coriaceous groove, which is overgrown with little feathers ; nostrils themselves exposed ; bristles weakly developed. Pirst jirimary be- tween half and three quarters of the length of the next primarj'. Wings rounded, fourth and seventh primaries forming the tip. Tail rounded, equal to or slightly shorter than wings. Tarsus covered * Among the doubtful species belonging to this obscure and diiScult genus may be mentioned the following :— Devoscopus somalicus. Lanius somalicus, Hartl. Ibis, 1859, p. 342; Finsch ^~ Hartl. Vdg. Ostafr. p. (1870); Heuglin. Faun. roth. Meer. no. 125. Dryoscopus somalicus, Hcvyl. Orn. pp. 460, csvii. "Above fine black, excepting the middle of the back being transversely varie- gated witb grey and wbitisb ;
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