326 LANIARIUS ERYTHROGASTER 
Ruwenzori show traces of yellow on the shoulders, and should 
be perhaps referred to Reichenow’s new subspecies, together 
with those obtained by Alexander in French Congoland. 
The species was originally discovered by Riippell in 
‘“ Hastern Abyssinia and Kordofan.” Heuglin met with it com- 
monly in pairs along the Blue Nile and in Kordofan, but always 
in thick bush along the rivers. Koenig during his recent 
journey up the White Nile from Khartum to Redjaf found it 
everywhere a most characteristic and common bird; he com- 
pares its melodious note to that of an oriole. Several of his 
specimens showed traces of the yellow tips to the shoulder- 
feathers, characteristic of Reichenow’s subspecies from the 
Camaroon, and he believes that it is merely a character 
of a fully adult male bird. The most northern locality I 
have found for this bird is Jebel Maman on the road from 
Suakim to Kassala, where it was met with by Butler, while 
Zedlitz has recently observed it at Scetel, Mansura, and on 
the Takase River in Eritrea, and gives some account of its 
habits. Along the White Nile it has been noticed by Hawker, 
Witherby and others from Shebesha near El Dueim south- 
wards, and there are a number of specimens from the Sobat 
tributaries in the British Museum presented by Macmillan. 
Donaldson Smith procured two examples on the Omo River, 
north of Lake Stephanie, and round the shores of Victoria 
Nyanza it has been collected by Jackson at Entebbe, by 
Neumann in Karivondo, by Fischer at Kagehi, and by Emin 
at Bussisi. There is a large series obtained by the Ruwenzori 
Expedition, where it was abundant in the acacia country at 
the south end of the range and in the Semliki valley, but it 
was never seen on the mountain itself. 
To the westward Butler states that it is a common bird 
in the Bahr el Ghazal, and further west it was obtained by 
Alexander on the Ba Mingui River in French Congo, and 
at Djimtilo, where the Shari enters Lake Chad. 
