18 ORIOLUS BRACHYRHYNCHUS 



Tlu' type was ol)tainpd at Sierra Ijcone, which is the most 

 northern range known for the species. In Liberia it is a 

 common bird of the forest, has been obtained at the Sulymah 

 Eiver by Demery, and at St. Paul's Eiver, Grand Cape 

 Mount, Messurdo, Junk Eiver, Schieffelinsville and Hill 

 Town, by Dr. Buttikofer, who remarks, after making some 

 observation on the variation in the size and colouring of his 

 specimens : " Their song is very much like that of 0. f/alhida, 

 interrupted now and then by a kind of mewing like that of 

 a cat." The species is equally abundant on the Gold Coast. 

 The type of 0. haruffi- was one of Pel's specimens from 

 Ashantee, on the label of which Temminck had previously 

 written " 0. iiiterinedius,'' which name was later adopted by 

 Hartlaub for this species. Mr. Boyd Alexander writes : 

 " Common in the forest, where its tlute-like call is often the 

 only bird-voice to be heard." While I was out there with 

 T. E. Buckley, we found the present species and O. iiif/ripeiinis 

 plentiful and frequenting the same trees at Abouri. In Togo- 

 land, these Orioles have been procured by Mr. Baumann, at 

 Misahohe, Amedjovhe and Agome Tongwe. It has not been 

 recorded from further east, until wo come to Camaroons, 

 where, according to Dr. Eeichenow, it is entirely replaced by 

 0. Icetior. 



These Orioles are abundant, in suitable places throughout 

 Camaroons and Gaboon, ranging inland to the Semliki Eiver, 

 which connects the Albert Edward Nyanza with the Albert 

 Nyanza, where it has been obtained by Di-. Ansorge at Fort 

 Beni, and in the neighbouring country, to the westward, Emin 

 collected specimens in the Ukondju country at Karevia and 

 along the Ituri Eiver at Iruniu and Ipoto. The most 

 southern range known for the species is Gaboon, for the 

 Oriole obtained by Bohndortt' on the Congo at Kibondo, 

 and referred to this species in 1887, is really a specimen of 

 O. larvatus. 



