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collected specimens at Pangani, Kipini, Mombasa, and Lamu 
Island, where he informs us that natives call it ‘“ Mgua.” 
It is not very abundant here, but often in the morning its 
long melancholy cry is to be heard in the thick acacia scrub. 
From further inland there are specimens in Mr. Jackson’s 
collection from Kamassia in the Rift Valley and Massabit, a 
voleano, 150 miles north of Kenia. 
Erlanger obtained this Bush-Shrike at Kismayu, in South 
Somaliland, as well as in several localities in Shoa and North 
Somaliland, where it has also been met with by Pease, Degen, 
Neumann and Zaphiro. Erlanger states that it is a cautious 
and shy bird, seldom seen, and generally keeping to thick 
bushes, and that it has a sweet and loud-resounding call. 
Neumann has separated the birds from Shoa and south 
Abyssinia from those of East Africa under the name of 
“ schoanus,” but the difference, which is only that of size, is 
very slight, and as has been shown by Reichenow, there is a 
great deal of individual variation in this respect. 
I have examined the following examples of this species in 
the British Museum: German Hast Africa—Pangani River 
(Kirk); British East Africa—Mombasa (Buxton and Fischer), 
Lamu (Kirk and Jackson); Adbyssinia—Walda, Marko and 
Alaga (Pease), Billen and Lake Zwai (Degen); Somaliland— 
Waghar (Zaphiro). 
Malaconotus monteiri. 
Laniarius monteiri, Sharpe, P.Z.S. 1870, p. 148, pl. 13, fig. 1 Rio Dande, 
Loanda. 
Malaconotus monteiri, Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 776 (1896); Reichen. Vog. 
Afr. ii. p. 600 (1903) ; Sharpe, Handl. B. iv. p. 290 (1903). 
Laniarius monteiri, Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1908, p. 288, in part. 
Adult. Very similar to M. poliocephalus, from which it differs only in 
the greater amount of white on the sides of the head and neck, the white 
extending back from the nostrils over and under the eye to the ear-coverts, 
