218 CORACINA PECTORALIS 
This Cuckoo-Shrike, like C. sulphurea, was discovered by 
Monsieur Humblot, and is represented in the British Museum 
by two of his specimens. It is a good intermediate form 
between the Madagascar C. cinerea major and C. pectoralis of 
the African continent, resembling the former in the deep black 
head and neck, and the latter in the white breast and under 
tail-coverts; it differs from them both in the dark colour of 
the thighs. 
Coracina pectoralis. 
Graucalus pectoralis, Jard. and Selby, Ill. Orn. ii. pl. 57 (1828) Szerra 
Leone; Sharpe, Cat. B.M. iv. p. 29 (1879) ; Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 681 
(1896) ; Stark and Sclater, Faun. 8. Afr. B. ii. p. 274 (1901); Butler, 
Ibis, 1908, p. 225, 1909, p. 80 Bahr el Ghazal. 
Coracina pectoralis, Reichen. Vég. Afr. ii. p. 515 (1903); Neum. J. f. O. 
1905, p. 213 N.H. Africa; Neave, Ibis, 1910, p. 131, Katanga ; 
Reichen. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berl. v. p. 221 (1911) Camaroon. 
Picnonotus niveoventer, Less. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 226. 
Ceblepyris cinerascens, Bp. Consp. i. p. 353 (1850) Guinea. 
Graucalus frenatus, Heugl. J. f. O. 1864, p. 255 Djur and Bongo. 
Campephaga anderssoni, Sharpe, P. Z. 8. 1870, p. 69, pl. 4 Ovampoland. 
Adults. Upper parts, from the bill to the tail, pearl grey; quills black 
with grey outer edges widening out towards the inner secondaries, which 
have the entire outer webs grey; tail blackish, with the centre pair of 
feathers grey, the remaining feathers showing white terminal margins, 
broadest on the outer pair where the pale colouring extends down the outer 
webs: head mostly grey with a variable amount of black on the sides of the 
head between the eye and the bill; chin and throat still more variable, 
being black in an Abyssinian specimen, and pure white with a grey collar in 
two specimens from Mamboio and Mpimbi, in others they are uniform dusky 
grey, or paler grey fading into white towardsthechin. ‘Iris brown; bill 
black ; feet darkish in the males, black in the females” (Stark). Total 
length 9°5 inches, culmen 0°85, wing 5:6, tail 4:5, tarsus 0°85. Gambia 
(Maloney). 
Adult female. Like the male; wing 5-9. Salisbury (Marshall). 
The Pectoral Cuckoo-Shrike ranges from Senegambia and 
Abyssinia southward over Tropical Africa. 
This is the most widely spread species of the family and 
