424 CHLOROPHONEUS NIGRIFRONS 
Cosmosphoneus nigrifrons, Neum. J. f. O. 1899, p. 396. 
Laniarius abbotti, Richmond, Auk, 1897, p. 161 Kilimanjaro; Sjostedt, 
Kilimandjaro-Meru Exped. Vég. p. 114 (1910). 
Chlorophoneus abbotti, Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 560 (1903). 
Chlorophoneus miniatus, Madarasz, Ann. Nat. Mus. Hungar. ii. p. 205 
(1904) Azboscho ; Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 833 (1905). 
Subspecies a—Chlorophoneus manningi. 
Malaconotus manningi, Shelley, Bull. B.O.C. viii. p. 35 (1899) ; id. Ibis, 
1899, p. 369, pl. v. Nyasa-Tanganyika Plateau. 
Chlorophoneus manningi, Sharpe, Handl. B. iv. p. 291 (1903). 
Laniarius manningi, Swynnerton, Ibis, 1908, p. 59 Gazaland. 
Chlorophoneus nigrifrons [non Reichen.] Neave, Ibis, 1910, p. 226 Katanga. 
Adult male. A broad frontal band and the sides of the head black ; 
crown, hinder half of neck and the upper back deep grey, passing into black 
next to the yellow throat; remainder of the upper parts green, with scarcely 
any trace of yellow ends to the quills; tail, with very narrow pale yellow 
ends to all but the centre pair of feathers; under surface of wings dusky 
black with broad inner margins to the quills and the coverts sulphur yellow ; 
under parts bright yellow shaded with orange on the lower throat and front 
of chest and with a slight olive tinge on the flanks and thighs. “Iris dark 
red; bill and feet almost black.” Total length 7-8 inches, culmen 0:7, 
wing 3°5, tail 3:6, tarsus 0°95. Foot of Mount Kenia, g, 16. 8. 99 
(Mackinder). 
Subspecies C.n. manningi. Differs from the typical form in the deeper 
orange red shade of the breast and throat, in other respects closely resembling 
it. Iris crimson, bill black, feet blue grey. Total length in the flesh 7-35, 
wing 3°5, culmen 0°68, tail 3-1. Chirinda Forest, g , 13. 4. 07 (Swynnerton). 
A female, also obtained by Swynnerton, does not differ from the male. 
The Black-fronted Bush-Shrike is a strictly forest-haunting 
bird and was first obtained in the woodlands at the base of 
Kilimanjaro by von der Marwitz. It was subsequently 
obtained by Abbott and Kittenberger in the same neighbour- 
hood, and in both cases given a fresh name by Richmond and 
Madarasz respectively. Mackinder collected one specimen in 
the thick forest near the foot of Mount Kenia at about 7,000 
feet, which is now in the British Museum, and Ansorge and 
Lord Delamere each took a single example on the Kikuyu 
escarpment. Mr. Jackson’s collection also contains a speci- 
