414 MALACONOTUS LAGDENI 
which have the ends white, and there is sometimes a patch of white on the 
sides of the neck behind the lower half of the ear-coverts; the grey of the 
head is also of a darker shade of slate. Iris brownish-grey or greenish 
ochre, bill black, feet slaty blue (Ansorge). Length about 10 inches, wing 
4-25, tail 4-2, culmen 1:0, tarsus 14. Rio Dande, type, 28. 4. 69 (Sala). 
Monteiro’s Grey-headed Bush-Shrike is a native of Angola. 
The type was obtained by Herr Sala on the Rio Dande 
to the north of St. Paul de Loanda on April 28, 1869, and is 
now in the British Museum. ; 
Ansorge has recently obtained two examples, a male at 
N’Dalla Tando, and a female at Dondo, both inland from 
St. Paul de Loanda in northern Angola. These two agree 
very well with the hitherto unique type in the extension of 
the white above and below the eye. At the same time Dr. 
Ansorge obtained at Malange, quite in the same neighbourhood, 
an undoubted example of the true M. poliocephalus. It there- 
fore seems probable that M. monteirt must be considered a 
true specific form, and not, as has been suggested by Reichenow 
and Ogilvie-Grant, an individual aberration. 
Malaconotus lagdeni. 
Laniarius lagdeni, Sharpe, P.Z.S. 1884, p. 54, pl. 5 Ashantee ; Ogilvie- 
Grant, Ibis, 1908, p. 289; id. Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 340 (1910) 
Ruwenzori. 
Malaconotus lagdeni, Shelley, B. Afr. 1. No. 775 (1896); Reichen. Vog, 
Afr. ii. p. 600 (1903) ; Sharpe, Handl. B. iv. p. 290 (1903); Reichen. 
Deutsch. Zentr. Afr. Exped. iii. p. 314 (1910). 
Adult. Entire upper half of the head and hinder half of neck deep grey ; 
back, tail and closed wings mostly green; upper tail-coverts and _ tail- 
feathers with terminal yellow margins, broadest on the outer tail-feathers ; 
wing-coverts and inner secondaries with rather broad pale yellow ends, 
and a black subterminal portion of these feathers showing; under wing- 
coverts and inner edges of the quills yellow; under parts bright yellow 
washed with orange on the throat. Bill black; feet grey. Total length 
10:5 inches, culmen 1:2, wing 4°6, tail 4:5, tarsus 1:35. Ashantee, type 
(Lagden). 
