348 DRYOSCOPUS MALZACII 
with by the English collectors, Lord Lovat, Pease and Degen, 
by Antinori, who collected for the Genoa Museum, and by 
Neumann and Erlanger among the Germans. From Kast 
Africa and Uganda Jackson has obtained a large series, some 
of which are in the British Museum, while the Ruwenzori 
Expedition obtained a good number of specimens on the slopes 
of that mountain up to an elevation of 6,500 feet. During his 
journey from Lake Chad to Khartum, Alexander collected 
examples in the Shari River region which match those 
from Ruwenzori very well. 
But few travellers have written any notes of the habits of 
this species. Heuglin is almost the only author who has done 
so. He found it a resident in the lowlands of Abyssinia, in 
Senaar, Kordofan, and on the upper White Nile; it does not 
reach higher elevations than about 6,000 feet, and is specially 
fond of isolated thick-leafed trees, in the shelter of which it 
lives in pairs or small families, and which it seldom leaves. 
It flits from one branch to another, and searches the buds 
and leaves for insects. Its voice, according to Brehm, 
resembles that of the Nuthatch, but Heuglin thought it more 
flute-like in sound. 
In southern Abyssinia Neumann found this bird in low 
bush at the edge of forests, chiefly in the river valleys, but 
occasionally as high as 8,500 feet. Woosnam met with it on 
the slopes of Mt. Ruwenzori, always in acacia bush, up to about 
6,500 feet, and states that the note is a curious one and unlike 
that of any other Bush-Shrike. 
The following list of examples examined in the British 
Museum shows the distribution of the two subspecies :— 
D. malzacii : EHritrea—Achor and Habub (Hsler), Anseba 
Valley (Blanford), Waliko, Bejook and Maraguay (Jesse) ; 
Abyssinia—Lakes Tsana, Zegi and Zwai, Miesse, Hoorsa 
(Degen), Mendi, Addara, Hado and Arriro (Lovat), Moubou, 
