— 362 — 



Distinguishhig characters. — Under-parts darker rufous, blue- 

 grey of the head darker. 



Observation. — I hâve alreadv pointed out (Rev. Zool. Afr., 

 VII, pt. 3, 1920, p. 289) that Bohndorfs Red-billed Shrike must 

 be considered a subspecies of 5. rufiventris for the reason men- 

 tioned above and that the chief character assigned to this race by 

 Sharpe does not hold good. 



(Harterts Red-billed Shrike is rather a « mopy » bird, a sinall 

 lot of nine were observed on January 24th in accacia trees ; they 

 hâve a loud piping note. Thèse were feeding on insects after the 

 manner of a Drongo, but were not nearly so active. — W. P. L.). 



Family SYLVIIDAE. 



Acrocephalus arundinaceus arundinaceus- 



Turdus arundinaceus Linn., Svst. Nat., X, ed 1758, p. 170. — 

 Type locality : Danzig. 



Three examples of the Great Reed Warbler were shot by 

 Mr LowE at the Iju water works near Lagos in Januarv 1920. 



From Northern Nigeria we hâve spécimens from Shonga 

 obtained by W. A. Forbes in November and December 1882. 



African range. — There are a number of /Vfrican examples of 

 this bird in the British Muséum collection in addition to those 

 mentioned above, from the Congo-mouth and the Aruwhimi river 

 and from Cape Colonv, Natal, Transvaal, Rhodesia, Nyasaland and 

 the Zambesi River while from the extrême north we hâve examples 

 from Algeria and Egvpt. 



Reichenow (Vôg. Afr., III, p. 585) records it from numerous 

 other localities including, on the West Coast, Libéria, Cameroon 

 and Gaboon. 



(Thèse birds appeared to arrive hère on januarv I5th; thev were 

 tolerably comraon and noticed in small lots of 4 or 6, usually in 

 the bracken {Nephrodium pallidiveniunî) on the edges of the 

 swamps. — W. P. L.) 



