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416 MALACONOTUS GABONENSIS 
Coast.” As the same specific name had been previously given 
by Hemprich and Ehrenberg to another Bush-Shrike, Count 
Salvadori proposed in 1884 to call it after Lesson, not remark- 
ing that in the previous year it was to this species that Dr: 
Gadow had given the name Laniarius poliochlamys. But as 
Hemprich and Ehrenberg’s Lanius cruentus is now referred 
to the genus Rhodophoneus there is no reason to reject 
Lesson’s original name. 
Kemp obtained this species at Bo, in Sierra Leone, and 
Demery on the Sulymah River in the same neighbourhood 
(Biittikofer, Notes Leyd. Mus., xiv., p. 23), while Ussher stated 
that it was not common near Cape Coast Castle, but more 
abundant in the interior in the forests of Fantee. In the 
neighbouring German Colony of T'ogoland it was procured by 
Baumann. 
The British Museum contains examples of this species 
from Bo in Sierra Leone (Kemp), and from Fantee in the 
Gold Coast Colony (Ussher and Aubinn). 
Malaconotus gabonensis. 
Malaconotus gabonensis, Shelley, Bull. B. O. C. iii. p. 43 (1894) Gaboon ; 
Sharpe Handl. B. iv. p. 290 (1903) ; id. Ibis, 1908, p. 329 Camaroon ; 
Reichen. Mittl. Zool. Mus. Berlin y. p. 83 (1910) Rio Benito. 
Laniarius hypopyrrhus (non Hartl.), Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii. p. 155 (1883). 
Malaconotus hematothorax, Neum. J.f. 0.1899, p. 390 Camaroon. 
Malaconotus lessoni (non Salvad.), Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. pp. 604, 725 
1903). 
% eee melinoides, Reichen. J. f. O. 1907, p. 470 Bangwa, 
N. Camaroon. 
Very similar in plumage to WM. cruentus, differing only in the grey of 
the upper parts not extending beyond the neck, the entire mantle being 
green like the remainder of the back: the primary coverts are green, not 
black ; under parts in adult birds are more strongly washed with vermilion. 
Wing 4:3 inches. Efulen, 3, 25.6. 03 (Bates), 
The Gaboon Fiery-breasted Bush-Shrike takes the place 
of the previous species from Camaroon to Gaboon. It appears 
to have been first met with by a collector of the Verreaux 
