MALACONOTUS CRUENTUS 415 
The type, a single specimen, probably a male, was procured 
by Sir Godfrey Lagden in 1883 in Ashantee, and until quite 
recently remained unique. On March 29, 1906, a second 
example was obtained by Mr. Gerald Legge in the Mubuku 
Valley on the western slope of Ruwenzori at an altitude of 
9,000 feet. This is a female and is slightly smaller than the 
type. The wing measures 4°4, and the throat is of a some- 
what less brilliant orange yellow. 
Several additional specimens have recently been procured 
by Herr R. Grauer on the higher slopes of the Mufumbiro 
volcanoes lying to the north of Lake Kivu. These are now 
in the Tring and Berlin Museums. 
Malaconotus cruentus. 
Vanga cruenta, Less. Cent. Zool. 1830, p. 198, pl. 65 Cape Coast. 
Malaconotus cruentus, Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 604 (1903). 
Laniarius poliochlamys, Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii. p. 155, pl. 3 (1883) 
Fantee. 
Malaconotus poliochlamys, Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 773 (1896); Sharpe, 
Handl. B. iv. p. 289 (1903); Kemp, Ibis, 1905, p. 234 Bo. 
Laniarius lessoni, Salvad. Ibis, 1884, p. 323. 
Adult. Cheeks, ear-coverts, crown, hinder half of neck and the upper 
back lead-grey, fading into white on the forehead, lores and round the 
eyes; remainder of upper parts mostly green; secondaries and tail-feathers 
with fairly broad yellow ends and broader subterminal black bars ; shafts of 
the tail-feathers with the greater portion blackish above and white beneath ; 
primaries with the obsolete yellow ends confined to their outer margins ; 
outer edge of the wing black, including some of the greater-coverts, the 
primary-coverts and the two outer primaries ; inner webs of all the quills 
black with broadish pale yellow margins; under wing-coverts pale yellow, 
mottled with orange near the bend of the wing ; under parts yellow, washed 
with orange-shaded vermilion on the throat and chest, and often there is an 
orange mark down the centre of the abdomen and on the under tail-coverts. 
“Tris grey ; bill black, feet lead-grey’’ (Baumann). Total length 9-6 inches, 
culmen 1-2, wing 4:2 to 4:5, tail 4-4, tarsus 13. Fantee (Aubin). 
Lesson’s Fiery-breasted Bush-Shrike is found on the west 
coast from Sierra Leone to Togoland. 
The type of Lesson’s Vanga cruenta came from “ Cape 
