LANIARIUS FUNEBRIS 327 
This Gonalek is found almost always in the thorn and 
other bush, growing along river beds and dry watercourses ; 
it is shy, and notwithstanding its conspicuous plumage 
manages to conceal itself very well. It is nearly always in 
pairs, and the unmistakable call and answer of the two 
sexes has been noticed by nearly all collectors. That of the 
male is a clear, loud and flute-like “huied,” while the answer 
of the female is snarling “ ter-er-er-er.” According to Heuglin 
the food consists of worms, caterpillars and insects. 
Two eggs of this species were procured by Woosnam at 
Mokia, near Ruwenzori, on May 11, 1906. They are rather 
pointed and somewhat glossy. The ground colour is pale blue 
spotted and blotched with umber brown and lilac grey, the 
markings being most numerous at the larger end. Both 
measure 0'9 x O°7. 
The following is a list of the examples of this species in 
the British Museum: 
L. erythrogaster erythrogaster : Abyssinia—Bogosland 
(Ksler), Farmaka on the Blue Nile (Lovat) ; Egyptian Soudan 
—Shebesha, Kawa, Gos-Abu-Guma, Renk, Kaka, Fashoda, 
Taufikia, all on the White Nile (Hawker, Zaphiro, Witherby 
and Dunn), Sobat and Baro rivers (Zaphiro), Mursu country 
near Lake Rudolf (Smith), Lake No (Best), and Jur Guttas 
(Bohndorf) in the Bahr el Ghazal. 
L. erythrogaster chrysostictus: Uganda—Elgeyu, Butiaba 
and Kawa Island (Jackson), Hoima road (Christy), near 
Entebbe and Mokia (Ruwenzori Expedition) ; French Congo— 
Ba Mingui, Fort Archumbault and Djimtilo on Lake Chad 
(Alexander). 
Laniarius funebris. 
Dryoscopus funebris, Hartl. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 105 Maninga ; Gadow, Cat. 
B. M. viii. p. 133 (1883); Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1904, p. 265 Abys- 
sinia and Somaliland ; id. Ibis, 1905, p. 203 Burwmba; Gurney, Ibis, 
1909, p. 500 Kibwest ; Bannerman, Ibis, 1910, p. 302 Somaliland, 
p. 690 Kilimanjaro. 
