412 MALACONOTUS APPROXIMANS 
E. Africa—Zomba, Chicowa on the Zambesi (Alexander), 
Chiringoma district (Cavendish), Coguno and Tete (C. Grant), 
Rovuma River (Thomson); various localities in Nyasaland 
(Sharpe, Johnston, Whyte and Manning). 
Malaconotus approximans. 
Archolestes approximans, Cab. in Decken, Reis. iii. p. 27 (1869) Dalaon 
River, Usambara. 
Malaconotus approximans, Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 779 (1896). 
Malaconotus poliocephalus approximans, Neum. J. f. O. 1906, p. 156. 
Laniarius approximans, Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1908, p. 287; Bannerman, 
Ibis, 1910, p. 302 Waghar. 
Malaconotus olivaceus hypopyrrhus (non Hartl.), Reichen. Vég. Afr. ii. 
p. 602 (1903); id. Atlas, pl. 10, fig. 2; id. J. f. O. 1903, p. 559; 
Erlanger ¢. c. p. 699 Shoa and S. Somaliland. 
Laniarius blanchoti, Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1904, p. 266 S. Abyssinia. 
Malaconotus poliocephalus schoanus, Neumann, Orn. Monatsb. 1903, 
p. 89 Shoa ; id. J. f. O. 1905, p. 225. 
Adults. Similar to M. poliocephalus, from which it is distinguished only 
by the rich chestnut shade across the lower throat and crop; this contrasts 
sharply with the remainder of the throat, which is sulphur yellow. “Iris 
yellow; bill horny black; feet grey.’ Total length 9 inches, culmen 1:25, 
wing 4:3, tail 4-0, tarsus 1:35. Mombasa, 92, 22. 6. 77. (Fischer). 
Examples from Shoa average rather larger. Wing 4:8, Marko, 3, 
12. 12. 00. (Pease). 
The East African Grey-headed Bush-Shrike replaces the 
previous species from about the line of the Pangani River in 
German East Africa, northwards to Shoa and southern 
Abyssinia. 
The type was obtained by Baron von der Decken on the 
Dalaon stream, a tributary of the Umbe River, which flows 
close to the Anglo-German boundary of German and British 
East Africa. In the same neighbourhood Sir John Kirk 
collected specimens for me in the Usambara country and also 
from Lamu, further north. Dr. Hildebrandt found it generally 
distributed throughout the Ukamba country, and Dr. Fischer 
