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less noticeable in the birds from Zanzibar Island, Pangani 
and Dar-es-Salaam than in those from the coast of British 
East Africa further north. 
The type of the species described by Gray came from 
Zanzibar and was originally in the Laugier collection; of the 
other synonyms Malaconotus similis, the name of which was 
afterwards changed by Gray to orientalis, had no type locality 
but was fixed on a female of the present species from 
Zanzibar by Finsch and Hartlaub, while Laniarius salime 
was formed on the male from the same locality. Sharpe 
(P. Z. S., 1878, p. 357) first united the male to the female 
in a note to a paper by Nicholson, who described a collection 
from Dar-es-Salaam containing examples of this species 
collected by E. C. Buxton. Fischer has obtained this. species 
at various localities from Zanzibar to Witu, and states that 
it haunts thick-leaved trees and has a beautiful flute-like 
note, which, though seldom heard, is highly characteristic. 
Jackson found this species very common on Manda Island 
close to Lamu, and states that it has a curious habit of 
snapping its wings together when taking a short flight. 
Beyond this there are no field-observations of this species. It 
has been obtained by Baron von Erlanger at various localities 
in South Somaliland on the Juba River up to Dogge about 
150 miles from its mouth. 
The British Museum contains examples from the following 
localities. British H. Africa—Lamu and Manda Island (Kirk 
and Jackson), Malindi (Kirk), Takauneu (Percival), Mombasa 
(Fischer); German EH. Africa—Pangani (Kirk), Dar-es-Salaam 
(Buxton) ; Zanzibar Island—(Hildebrandt, Kirk and Laugier). 
