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that Latham’s bird is identical with Levaillant’s Boubou, 
and has nothing to do with Latham’s Boulboul (Index Orn. 
i, p. 81), from India. 
Mr. Layard writes that this bird is the Boubou of 
Levaillant and the “Bonte Canaribyter” and “ Zwarte 
Canaribyter” of the Colonists. It appears to be distributed 
along the south of Cape Colony, and is not uncommon about 
wooded places in the neighbourhood of Cape Town and 
Rondebosch. In Natal I found this species very common in 
the thick bush about Durban, often in family parties and con- 
stantly on the move, and tolerably noisy; Butler, Feilden 
and Reid met with it on the Drakensberg near Newcastle, 
and also at Maritzburg and remark “ Not very common and 
strictly a woodland species frequenting the densest bush. It 
is very shy, keeping out of sight as much as possible, and 
is usually found singing.” They also remarked on its loud 
note. 
Claude Grant writes: “This Shrike was commonly noted 
from the Cape Peninsula, the Knysna, Zululand, the eastern 
and north-eastern Transvaal, and the Inhambane district of 
Portuguese East Africa. It frequents forest and well-timbered 
country and, except when the young are about, is found in 
pairs. It feeds chiefly on coleopterous insects, and never, I 
believe, attacks small birds. The whistle-call ‘ hoo-hoo’ of 
the male followed immediately by the answering call of 
‘ku-ee’ of the female at once betrays its presence. It is 
skulking in habits and the flight when indulged in is of short 
duration.” 
The nest, according to Ivy, is a very shallow one of rootlets 
and small twigs in the centre of a thick bush. The eggs 
according to the Woodwards are three in number, light blue 
speckled with red-brown, somewhat more densely at the obtuser 
end. They are figured in the Catalogue of Eggs in the British 
