MALACONOTUS GLADIATOR 417 
(Rev. Mag. Zool. 1855, p. 419). They speak of it as a 
magnificent species resident in Gaboon, only found in ravines 
where the bush is very thick, and never far from water. It 
feeds on Coleoptera and also on the large ants so abundant in 
that country, and has a loud cry heard morning and evening. 
An example from Verreaux’s collection is in the British 
Museum. Du Chaillu procured this species also in Gaboon 
at Rembo, Moonda River, and in the Ogowe district. In 
Camaroon it has been met with in various localities by Preuss, 
Zenker, and other German collectors, and there is a good series 
in the British Museum from Efulen and the River Ja, collected 
by G. L. Bates. 
Reichenow names a bird from northern Camaroon M. 
melinoides, distinguishing it by its orange-yellow instead of 
orange or scarlet-red breast and throat. 
Malaconotus adolfi-friederici. 
Malaconotus adolfi-friederici, Reichen. Orn. Monatsb. 1908, p. 191 Benz ; 
id. Deutsch. Zentr. Afr. Exped. iii, p. 314, pl. vii. 
Resembling M. gabonensis, but with the upper parts a clearer green and 
less yellowish; the under tail-coverts are paler yellow; the yellow at the 
tips of the secondaries and tail-feathers is paler ; as are also the under wing- 
coverts and the inner edges of the primaries; the bill is smaller (Reichenow). 
One male example of this species which I have not seen, 
but which seems hardly separable from M. gabonensis, was 
taken in the Congo Forest north-west of Beni on the Semliki 
River in January, 1908, by the expedition of the Duke of 
Mecklenburg. 
Malaconotus gladiator. 
Laniarius gladiator, Reichen. J. f. O. 1892, p, 441 Buea. 
Malaconotus gladiator, Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 780 (1896); Reichen. 
Vog. Afr. ii. p. 600, pl. x. fig. 1 (1903); Sharpe, Handl. B. iv. 
p. 290 (1903). 
Head, nape, chin and upper throat grey, the throat washed with olive ; 
