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Shelley and Buckley found this bird rare in the Gold 
Coast, and only met with it once at Cape Coast Castle, while 
Alexander states that he did not meet with the species in the 
hinterland but on the lower reaches of the Volta River from 
Krachi downwards. “It frequents the low marshy ground, 
overgrown with high grass, close to the river. The birds 
were seldom seen during the day, but towards evening may 
be observed perched on branches of prominent shrubs among 
the tall grass.” 
In Togoland it has been obtained by various German 
collectors, in southern Nigeria by Robin Kemp, and in 
Camaroon by Alexander, but I have not heard of it in 
Gaboon until the Cabinda or Portuguese Congo is reached, 
where it was obtained by Falkenstein and by Lucas and 
Petit. 
In Uganda and the neighbouring regions, Jackson, 
Ansorge, Doggett, Stuhlman, Emin, Neumann, and Woosnam 
have all met with this species. The first named found it 
breeding at Nandi in British East Africa on June 12, 1898, 
at 6,500 feet. The nest, containing two eggs, was placed 
in a small bush in a swamp, and was in a very exposed 
position. 
The French Mission under the Marquis de Bonchamps, 
which in 1896 endeavoured to penetrate from Addis Ababa 
to the upper waters of the White Nile, obtained this Shrike 
at Bouré, a place situated in the upper valley of the Sobat 
River. This specimen was described as new by Oustalet, under 
the name of Bocagia potteri, but is without doubt identical 
with other Ethiopian examples obtained by Lovat, Degen and 
Zaphiro, all in the upper Abyssinian valleys of the Blue Nile 
and its affluents. Neumann, who also collected this species 
in the Kaffa and Djimma districts of Abyssinia, remarks that 
he found it in bush at the edge of forest and most commonly 
