206 CAMPEPHAGA NIGRA 
length 8 inches, culmen 0:55, wing 3:9, tail 3-9, tarsus, 0°75. Durban 
(Gordge). 
Adult female. Upper parts ashy brown, with a wash of yellow on the 
head, neck and mantle ; scapulars, middle and lower back barred with black 
wings and tail dusky brown, with bright yellow edges to all but the six 
centre tail-feathers, which are washed with olive yellow; throat and under- 
surface of body white, the feathers mostly barred with black and some, 
especially on the sides of the body, washed with yellow; under wing- 
coverts and the outer three pairs of tail-feathers with the bright yellow of their 
ends rapidly increasing towards the outer one, where it covers more than 
half of the feather and extends over nearly the whole of the outer webs of it 
and the next feather; throat and under surface of the body white, the 
feathers mostly barred with black, and some, especially on the sides of the 
body, washed with yellow ; under wing-coverts and very broad, incomplete 
inner edges to the quills bright yellow ; wing 4:0. Durban (Gordge). 
The Black Cuckoo-Shrike ranges over Africa south from 
the Congo on the west, and from the Equator, in Central 
and Eastern Africa. 
Dr. Reichenow is right in referring the C. nigra of Marche 
and De Compiégne’s collection, from Fernand-Vaz to C. 
quiscalina, which is known to inhabit that country, while 
the present species has not otherwise been recorded from 
Gaboon; I doubt its having been obtained by Falken- 
stein at Chinchonxo, in Loango, where it appears to me to 
be entirely replaced by C. quiscalina, which is, I believe, the 
only representative of the genus known from the Congo, 
below Léopoldville. 
C. nugra is apparently distributed over the entire southern 
waterbasin of the Congo, for specimens have been recorded 
from Kassongo (Bohndorff) and Lake Tanganyika (Storms), 
the Kuango River (Mechow) and Malange (Schiitt). Anchieta 
has collected specimens in Benguella at Quissange, Biballa 
and Galanga, at whieh latter place it was called the ‘“ Gan- 
jamdumbo” by the natives, who, in the Humbe district, 
distinguish the male as the “ Melombe,” and the female as 
the “'Temboandangui.” The species has also been procured 
