LANIARIUS FUNEBRIS 329 
coast. It is equally plentiful in Somaliland, both north and 
west, whence there is a large series in the British Museum. 
On an individual from the Sagan Valley, between Lakes 
Stephanie and Margarita, Neumann has founded a new sub- 
species which he states differs from that of East Africa proper, 
in the absence of white from the rump, but I must confess 
that I have not found this to be the case, either with an 
example collected by Donaldson Smith on Lake Stephanie 
or with others from Shoa. 
Further south Jackson met with this species in the Mount 
Elgon country, Doggett to the west of Victoria Nyanza in 
Ankole, Gurney at Kibwezi in British East Africa, and Hunter 
and Percival and the Swedish Kilimanjaro Expedition in the 
neighbourhood of that mountain. Fischer and many other 
German collectors have obtained it in various localities in 
German East Africa, while the extreme southern point of its 
range appears to lay “north of Lake Nyasa,” whence it was 
procured by Sir A. Sharpe. 
All observers have noticed the striking and characteristic 
notes of this bird; Fischer states that the male first gives 
a triple, clear flute-like note of three tones, which is imme- 
diately answered by the female with one. Béhm says the 
male begins with three full, deep notes like those of a bell- 
glass, “ tunk-tunk-tunk,” to which he sometimes adds an 
exulting “‘ré-a,” while the female answers him with a snarling 
Sure or hierr.”’ 
The birds are nearly always in pairs, and are usually found 
in the dry acacia-covered plains of East Africa, where they 
keep well hidden in the thick bush. 
Erlanger found a nest on April 4 in the Gurre country 
of Somaliland; it contained two young birds just hatched 
and an egg just on the point of hatching; it was situated 
in a bush into which had grown a climbing euphorbia, and 
