CORACINA PURA 223 
Coracina pura, Reichen. Vég. Afr. ii. p. 515 (1903), Erlanger, J. f. O- 
1905, p. 688 S. Abyssinia ; Reichen. Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. 
lii. p. 308 (1910). 
Coracina czsia pura, Neum. J. f. O. 1905, p. 213 N. H. Africa; Sjéstedt, 
Kilimandjaro- Meru Exped. Vég. p. 111 (1910). 
Graucalus cesius, Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 171 Abyssinia ; id. Trans. 
Zool. Soe. xix. p. 889 (1910) Ruwenzori. 
Types, male and female. Nearly similar to C. c@sia, but smaller. Total 
length 9 and 9-5 inches, culmen 0-7 and 0-75, wing 4:8 and 4-7, tail 3-5 and 
3°7, tarsus 0°85. 
Immature. Similar to that of C. c@sia, already described, but a few 
of the feathers of the breast have broadish black bars. Nandi 5. 7. 98 
(Jackson). 
Jackson’s Cuckoo-Shrike ranges over Central and Eastern 
Africa from the Nyasa-Tanganyika plateau to Abyssinia. 
In German East Africa the species has been recorded from 
as far south as Bulonga (Fiilleborn), situated in the Living- 
stone Mountains, to the north of Lake Nyasa and in the 
Morogoro (Stuhlmann), a country between Ugogo and Zan- 
zibar. It is represented in the British Museum, from Mount 
hilgon, where Mr. Jackson discovered the type in thick forest ; 
also from the Eldoma ravine and Nandi (Jackson), Mount 
Kenia (Mackinder), Nairobi (Delamere), Somaliland (Atkin- 
son and Delamere), Amadja (Zaphiro), Chelanco (Lovat). 
Lord Lovat writes: “Of a shy, skulking habit, this bird 
might be easily passed over but for its magnificent note. 
They were plentiful in the Warabili and Kuni forests. I do 
not think that its range extends very far north or east. Near 
Addis Abeba, in the thickets af Mangasia, a solitary specimen 
of the bird was observed.” Mr. Woosnam, who obtained 
this bird on the slopes of Ruwenzori, describes its cry as a 
long-drawn-out feeble squeak resembling that of a mouse. 
Mr. Oscar Neumann, who met with it in the Kikuyu, Malo 
and Kaffa countries, records it as frequenting the thickest 
and darkest forests, at elevations of from 7,000 to 9,000 feet . 
