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288 Mr. W. E. Ogilvie-Grant on Birds collected 



Hub. Ranging from Southern Abyssinia southwards to 

 the Pangani River, 



Prof. Neumann has separated the Abyssinian bird from 

 the East-African form [L. approximans) , under the name 

 M. p. schoanus ; the difference between the two is entirely 

 one of size^ the Abyssinian bird being slightly larger. 



L. approximans : wing 4*2-4"3 inches. 



L. schoanus : wing 4'6-4*9 inches. 



(2) L. HYPOPYRRHUS. 



Malaconotus hypopyri'hus Hartl. Syst. Verz. Mus. Bremen, 

 p. 61 (1844) ; Neumann, J. f. O. 1906, p. 155. 



Laniarius starki W. L, Sclater, Ibis, 1901, p. 152. 



Malaconotus starki ^heWey, Ibis, 1901, p. 170; Sharpe, 

 Hand-1. iv. p. 289 (1903). 



Malaconotus olivaceus starki Reich, ii. p. 603 (1903). 



Hab. Ranging from the Pangani River to Cape Colony. 



According to Prof. Neumann, who has examined the type, 

 M. hypopyrrhus Hartl. is undoubtedly an example of the 

 South- African form. 



(3) L. POLIOCEPHALUS. 



Lani us polio cephalus Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 45 (1823). 



Malaconotus blanchoti Steph. in Shawn's Gen. Zool. xiii. 

 pt. ii. p. 161 (1825). 



Malaconotus olivaceus Reich, (nee Shaw) ii. p. 601 

 (1903). 



Malaconotus poliocephalus Sharpe, Hand-1. iv. p. 289 

 (1903). 



Hab. Ranging from Senegambia to Camaroon and ap- 

 parently to the north-west of Lake Tanganyika, as 

 Mr. Carruthers's specimen is indistinguishable from birds 

 from the Gambia. 



(4) L. MONTEIRI. 



Laniarius monteiri Sharpe, P. Z.S. 1890, p. 148, pi. xiii. 

 fig. 1. 



Malaconotus catharoxanthus Neumann, J. f. 0. 1899, p. 391; 

 id. Orn. Monatsb. xi. p. 90 (1903). 



