LANIARIUS MUFUMBIRI 321 
writes: “This beautiful Bush-Shrike haunts thick under- 
growth on the banks of the Volta River, being distributed 
in pairs from source to mouth. We never found it in any 
other locality, and it is essentially a river-loving species. 
In April it was breeding. From two of the specimens obtained 
we took out complete eggs. At that time the male birds were 
very noisy, uttering at short intervals, throughout the heat 
of the day, their loud peculiar notes, like the clang of a broken 
bell, which was often followed by a whirring noise made by the 
wings.” 
In the neighbouring German Colony of Togoland, the 
Gonolek was taken by von Zech and Kurtz for the Berlin 
Museum, and in Dahomey by Newton for the Lisbon Museum. 
Inland in Northern Nigeria it appears to be widely distributed 
(Hartert) from the Niger to the western shores of Lake Chad, 
while east and south of that lake its place is taken by L. e. 
chrysostictus. 
The following is a list of the examples in the British 
Museum: Senegal—St. Louis and Rufisque (Laglaize) ; 
Gambia Colony—(Hopkinson, Moloney and Whiteley) ; Portu- 
guese Guinea—Gunnal, Oeo, and Port Marsoa (Ansorge) ; 
Gold Coast—Accra (Shelley and Buckley), Fantee (Higgins and 
Ussher), Volta (Ussher and Alexander); Northern Nigeria 
—Shonga (Forbes), Ilorin (Bryant), Lokoja (Christy), Ama- 
gaddi and Yo on Lake Chad (Alexander). 
Laniarius mufumbiri. 
Laniarius mufumbiri, Ogilvie-Grant, Bull. B. O. C. xxix. p. 30 (1911), 
Ibis, 1912, p. 332, pl. 6, Vichwmbi, 
Adult.—Closely resembling L. barbarus but smaller, and with the median 
wing-coverts broadly tipped with white; and the thighs, vent and under tail- 
coverts whitish buff instead of ochraceous. Iris lemon-white, bill and inside 
of mouth black, feet grey. Total length 7-5 inches, wing 3°6, tail 3:3, 
culmen 0°95, tarsus 1:3. Type (Mrs. Roby). 
