LANIARIUS ERYTHROGASTER 325 
S.-W. Africa—Otjimbinque and Otniovapa (Andersson) ; 
Angola—Gambos (Anchieta). 
Laniarius erythrogaster. 
Lanius erythrogaster, Cretzm. in Riipp. Atlas, Vog. p. 43, pl. 29 (1826). 
Laniarius erythrogaster, Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii. p. 154 (1883); Shelley, 
B. Afr. i. No. 729 (1896) ; Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 586 (1903) ; Neum. 
J. f. O. 1905, p. 223 Upper Sobat Valley ; Butler, Ibis, 1905, p. 329, 
1908, p. 227, 1909, p. 81 Sudan; Jackson, Ibis, 1906, p. 551 Toro ; 
Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1907, p. 589 White Nile and Sobat ; id. Trans. 
Zool. Soe. xix. 1910, p. 340, pl. xix. fig. 22, egg, Ruwenzori; Zedlitz, 
J. f. O. 1910, p. 799 Eritrea ; Reichen. Deutsch. Zentr. Afr. Exped. 
iii. 1910, p. 813 Albert Hdward Region; Koenig, Ber. V. Intern. 
Orn.-Kongr. 1910, p. 511 White Nile. 
Malaconotus wernei, Cat. Mus. Hein. i. p. 69 (1850) Upper Blue Nile. 
Laniarius chrysogaster, Bp. Consp. i. p. 360 (1850). 
Subspecies a. Laniariws chrysostictus. 
Laniarius erythrogaster chrysostictus, Reichen. Orn. Monatsb. 1910, p. 95 
Adamawa ; id. Mittl. Zool. Mus. Berl. vy. p. 222 (1911). 
Adult male. Upper parts glossy blue-black, the wings and tail entirely 
black, both above and beneath ; lower back, with large subterminal white bars 
to the feathers; chin, throat and breast vermilion ; thighs, lower abdomen and 
the under tail-coverts yellowish-buff; flanks black mottled with white. 
‘Tris, white or pale yellow, bill and feet black.’’ Total length 9-0 inches, 
culmen 0:9, wing 4:0, tail 4:0, tarsus 1:15. Shebesha, White Nile, ¢ , 24. 4. 00 
(Witherby). The female is slightly smaller, wing 3°8. Kaka (Hawker). 
Immature. Has traces of buffy yellow feathers on the crown, and probably 
had the whole crown that colour, also traces of tawny tips to the coverts ; 
feet ashy grey. Gos-Abu-Guma (Hawker). 
L. e. chrysostictus differs in having a few white spotted feathers on the 
shoulders which have yellow and red ends instead of black. This subspecies 
was recently described by Reichenow from Dodo and Tchamba in Adamawa 
in the interior of Camaroon, where it was procured by Riggenbach. 
The Abyssinian Gonalek ranges from Eritrea and Senaar 
south to Victoria Nyanza and the eastern slopes of Ruwenzori 
and west through the Bahr el Ghazal to the eastern shore of 
Lake Chad and to Adamawa in the interior of Camaroon, but 
it does not reach the highlands of Abyssinia or Shoa. 
Some of the examples of this species from Uganda and 
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