LANIARIUS LEUCORHYNCHUS 333 
collected examples on the Camma, Ogobai and Moondi rivers 
and Falkenstein in Portuguese Congo, while in the interior 
of the Belgian Congo it was met with by Bohnsdorff at 
Leopoldville, by Jameson at Yambuya on the Aruwimi, 
by Emin at Bundeko in the Mombattu country and by 
Woosnam at Fort Beni in the Semliki Valley. These 
last are at the most eastern limits of its range. 
Bates states that “the Sooty Blackbird lives in the 
thick tangled growth of old garden-clearings, hiding when an 
intruder comes near and scolding with a noise as loud as that 
of cats fighting.” 
Buttikofer (Notes, Leyd. Mus. 1885, p. 183) found a nest 
of this species (which he at first wrongfully identified as that 
of Melaenornis edolioides) on October 29, in a swamp behind 
the beach at Robertsport in Liberia. It much resembled a 
dove’s nest in size and shape and was constructed of thorns 
and twigs and lined very sparingly with small roots, which 
were just sufficiently thick to prevent the eggs from dropping 
through. It was placed in the fork of a shrub and about 
3 feet from the surface of an almost inaccessible swamp. The 
egos, two in number, were greenish grey, closely covered 
with irrecular, obscure, ochraceous brown spots, and measured 
EOL xX 0:7, 
The series in the British Museum contains examples from 
the following localities: Sierra Leone—Bo (Kemp); Gold 
“Coast Colony —Commendah (Blissett), Fantee (Ussher) ; 
Camaroon — Camaroon Mountain (Crossley), Efulen and 
River Ja (Bates); French Congo—-Como River (Bates), 
Gaboon River (Ansell and Walker), Kembi Mobbai and Bwando 
rivers along the Ubangwe (Alexander); Belgian Congo— 
Yambuya (Jameson), Fort Beni (Ruwenzori Expedition), 
Garuba River and Gudima in the Mombattu country 
(Alexander). 
