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is apparently evenly distributed without being very common 
anywhere. Many years ago Sir A. Maloney gave me a 
specimen, now in the British Museum, from the Gambia 
River, which is the most northern locality known for this 
Cuckoo-Shrike in West Africa. The type of the species was 
received by the late Sir W. Jardine from Sierra Leone, and 
the type of C. cinerascens is a specimen from the Guinea 
Coast. Mr. Boyd Alexander, who procured specimens at 
Gambaga and Krachi in the Gold Coast Colony, describes 
the immature plumage (Ibis, 1902, p. 309). Between Togo- 
land and Benguella I find it recorded only from Camaroon 
(Carnap and Riggenbach), Gaboon (Verreaux) and Milandje 
(Mechow). Bohndorff, during his Congo Expedition, procured 
examples at Stanley Falls, and also at Dem Suleiman and 
Sassa on both sides of the watershed separating the Congo 
from the Gazelle River. 
In Benguella Anchieta collected specimens at Caconda 
and Quibella, and found it known to the natives as the 
“Epio” at Galanga, and the “Pio” at Quindumbo. It has 
also been procured in the upper Cunene district, by Van 
der Kellen, on the Kasinga River. Andersson obtained it 
in Ovampoland, and the type of C. anderssoni at Ovaquen- 
yama, which latter specimen is in the British Museum, The 
species has not been recorded from further south in western 
Africa. 
On the eastern side of the continent these Cuckoo- 
Shrikes range from the Tropic of Capricorn northward into 
Abyssinia, and the Bahr el Ghazal, where Butler found them 
not uncommon in thick forest. They are represented in the 
British Museum from the Lehtaba River in the eastern 
Transvaal, Mashonaland, Zambesi, Nyasaland, Mamboio, 
Uganda, Tobbo and Abyssinia. Mr. Walter Ayres shot two 
of these birds at Rovi-rand, near the Lehtaba River, an 
