224 CORACINA PREUSSI 
it was evidently breeding in February and March. A little 
further eastward Erlanger procured four specimens during 
his journey from Gara Mulata to Derhu. In Shoa both 
Antinori and Ragazzi found the species frequenting the forest. 
Sjéstedt, who obtained one example in the rain-forest on the 
slopes of Kilimanjaro, found beetles and caterpillars in the 
stomach. 
Coracina preussi. 
Graucalus preussi, Reichen. J. f. O. 1892, p. 183 Camaroon; Shelley, 
B. Afr. i. No. 682 (1896); Alexander, Ibis, 1903, p. 360 
Fernando Po. 
Coracina preussi, Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 515 (1903). 
Type. General plumage grey, inclining to white on the front of the 
crown and on the eyebrows; a streak round the forehead and the lores 
black; throat slaty black; quills and tail-feathers black, edged with grey, 
and the outer tail-feathers tipped with grey. Iris brown; bill and feet 
black. Total length 9:8 inches, culmen 0:7, wing 4:6, tail 4:15, tarsus 0-9. 
Female. Differs in having the forehead, lores and throat uniform grey 
like the remainder of the under parts. 
Preuss’s Cuckoo-Shrike inhabits Camaroon. 
The types, consisting of a male and female, were discovered 
by Dr. Preuss in September and October at Buea at an 
elevation of 3,000 feet; he also obtained an immature 
specimen of this apparently very local species on Mount 
Victoria in May. ‘The only other mention I find of this 
Cuckoo-Shrike is that of Boyd Alexander who obtained a 
hen bird at 500 feet on Mount St. Isabel in Fernando Po. 
He gives a short note: “Total length (measured in flesh) 
87 inches, culmen 0°9, wing 4°53, tail 4°3, tarsus 0°96. Iris 
black ; legs and feet brownish black.” This example, which 
appears to be indistinguishable from a female of C. nwra, is now 
in the British Museum. 
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