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Burchell’s Gonalek ranges from the Victoria Falls district 
and from the interior of the Mossamedes province of Angola 
south to the Orange River. 
It was first met with by Burchell near the junction of the 
Orange and Vaal Rivers in what is now Griqualand West. He 
writes: “ This bird inhabits the woods along the rivers 
Gariep and Kygariep; and it has also been met with in the 
eountry of the Bachapins, near the River Kruman, at a spot 
which I have designated on the map by the name of Mokiala- 
Grove, where the large and beautiful trees of Acacia giraffe 
(Mokala) are the resort of many handsome and rare species. 
During my residence in the town of Litakun, I 
obtained the Bachapin names of a considerable number of 
birds; and that which was given to the present species, was 
‘ Korrokoba.’ ” 
The type locality is about the most southern point of its 
range; north of this it is spread of the western half of the 
Transvaal to the neighbourhood of Pretoria, whence it is 
recorded by Distant and Penther. In the Rustenburg district 
and the Magaliesberg Mountains it has been reported by 
Ayres and Barrett as well as in the bordering districts of 
Bechuanaland; Bradshaw and Chubb found it in Matabeleland, 
whence it extends north to the Victoria Falls. Chubb writes : 
“Not uncommon, but shy and seldom seen. Its bright red 
under parts render it a very conspicuous object in the bush. 
Occasionally it descends to the ground to feed ; in the stomach 
of one thus shot were found ants, beetles and caterpillars.” 
Of German South-west Africa Andersson writes: “ This 
brilliant coloured Shrike is pretty generally dispersed over 
Damara and Great Namaqualand and also over the Lake 
regions. It is usually found either singly or in pairs and is 
a wary bird, frequenting both open woods and dense thickets, 
but preferring the latter. In such localities it searches 
