422 CHLOROPHONEUS MELAMPROSOPUS 
The types of this species were obtained by Preuss at Vic- 
toria in Camaroon on March 16 and 25, 1898, and so far as I 
am aware these are the only specimens known. 
Chlorophoneus melamprosopus. 
Laniarius melamprosopus, Reichen. J. f. O. 1878, p. 209 Liberia. 
Malaconotus melamprosopus, Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 770 (1896). 
Chlorophoneus melamprosopus, Reichen. V6g. Afr. ii. p. 564 (1903) ; 
Sharpe, Handl. B. iv. p. 291 (1903). 
Laniarius zosterops, Biittikofer, Notes Leyd. Mus. 1889, p. 98 Liberia. 
Cosmophoneus reichenowi, Neum. J. f. O. 1899, p. 393 Camaroon. 
Chlorophoneus reichenowi, Reichen. Vog. Afr. Atlas, pl. 9, fig. 2 (1905). 
Laniarius graueri, Hartert, Bull. B. O. C. xiii. p. 9 (1908), id. Nov. Zool. 
1809, p. 335 Forest region west of Lake Albert Edward. 
Adult male. A broad black band covering the forehead is continued back 
over the sides of the head and halfway down the sides of the neck, and is 
margined on the crown by a narrow, short, white eyebrow, which merges 
into a broad patch of white on the front of the crown; remainder of 
crown, and hinder half of the neck, grey; the grey extending on to the 
mantle where it shades into the green of the back, upper tail-coverts and 
wings; most of the quills have pale yellow ends, broadest towards the inner 
secondaries; under surface of wings blackish, with the coverts, portion of 
inner margins and tips of quills yellow; tail black, with yellow ends to all 
the feathers, broadest on the outer ones and darker below than above; chin, 
throat, breast and under tail-coverts rich orange yellow. ‘Iris red; bill 
black; feet horn-blue.”’ Total length 8-8 inches, culmen 0°65, wing 3:8, 
tail 3-8, tarsus 1:0. Kibirau in Toro, 3, 28. 9. 05 (Jackson). 
Adult female. Differs only in the forehead, crown and sides of the head 
being grey, with a white mottling on the feathers of the forehead and lores ; 
eyebrows white; wings with some yellow ends to the coverts; dark por- 
tion of tail green, not black; abdomen and under tail-coverts less orange ; 
flanks and thighs tinged with green. Iris brownish-red. Wing 3-5. Kibirau, 
9, 28. 9. 05 (Jackson). 
Another specimen marked female, but probably a young male, has the 
forehead and lores darker ; broad yellow inner margins to the tail-feathers ; 
yellow ends to the wing-coverts broader. Kibirau, ?, 24. 9. 05 (Jackson). 
The Orange-breasted Bush-Shrike ranges from Liberia to 
north Angola on the west coast of Africa, and inland to Toro 
in Uganda. 
The type was procured by Schweizer in Liberia, and 
