336 LANIARIUS FULLEBORNI 
seen, uttering peculiar ventriloquial croaks in a constantly 
varied tone.” 
Alexander collected six examples at Mount St. Isabel, 
Moka, and near Bakaki, all of which are now in the British 
Museum. There are also six additional specimens collected 
by Seimund at North Banterbari in the same island in 1904. 
None of these show any trace of the white bill so charac- 
teristic of the young of the allied L. lewcorhynchus. 
Laniarius fulleborni. 
Dryospopus filleborni, Reichen. Orn. Monatsb. 1900, p. 89 Usafua. 
Laniarius filleborni, Reichen. Vég. Afr. ii. p. 573 (1903). 
Laniarius murinus, Reichen. Orn. Monatsb. 1901, p. 101 Muhanga; id, 
Vog. Afr. ii. p. 574 (1903). 
Adult male. Black throughout above and below, darkest on the head 
and throat, including the ear-coverts, more ashy on the back, breast, wings 
and tail; rump feathers the same colour throughout, not subterminally grey 
asin DL. nigerrimus; tail shorter than the wing. Total length 9:0 inches, 
wing 8-4, tail 3:2, culmen 0°8, tarsus 1:2. Karonga, ¢ (Whyte). 
Female immature. Dark mouse-coloured brown above, rather paler 
below and slightly freckled ; dimensions about as in the male. Nyasaland, 
@ (Sharpe). 
The Nyasaland Boubou has only been met with in the 
highlands round the north end of Lake Nyasa. Reichenow 
described the type obtained by Fiilleborn at Usafua north 
of Lake Nyasa, and the following year another bird from the 
north-east of Lake Nyasa of a paler and browner colour which 
he named LZ. murinus. The British Museum has one 
specimen collected at Karonga on north shore of Lake Nyasa 
by Whyte which is without doubt referable to this species, 
and two more without definite locality, but from the same 
region, collected for Sir Alfred Sharpe. Of this latter pair 
one marked ¢ agrees very well with the description of 
L. murinus and appears to me to be an immature example 
of L. fiilleborni. 
