426 CHLOROPHONEUS SULFUREOPECTUS 
Chlorophoneus nigrithorax. 
Laniarius nigrithorax, Sharpe, Ibis, 1871, p. 417 Accra ; Reichen. J. f. O. 
1897, p. 32 Togoland. 
Malaconotus nigrithorax, Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 772 (1896). 
Chlorophoneus nigrithorax, Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 566 (1903). 
Laniarius melanothorax, Sharpe, Ibis, 1881, p. 605; Gadow, Cat. B. M. 
, vii. p. 157, pl. iv. (1883). 
Chlorophoneus melanothorax, Sharpe, Handl. B. iv. p. 291 (1903). 
Adult. A broad forehead, sides of head, chin, front half of neck and front 
of chest, jet black; crown, hinder half of neck and the upper mantle, grey, 
with white shaft-stripes to most of the feathers of the crown; remainder of 
upper parts green, with pale yellow ends to most of the quills and a trace of 
yellow ends on a few of the greater and primary coverts ; under surface of 
quills blackish, with broad inner margins and small tips of sulphur yellow, 
like the under wing-coverts ; tail, above green with the shafts of the feathers 
black up to the moderately broad orange ends: beneath the shafts of the 
feathers are white, and the dark portion of the tail blackish with yellowish 
edges and bases; breast and thighs yellow inclining to green on the flanks, 
and strongly washed with scarlet on the chest and under tail-coverts. 
“Tris violet, bill black, feet lead-grey”” (Baumann). Total length 7-7 inches, 
culmen 0:7, wing 4:0, tail 4:0, tarsus 1:0. Accra, type (Haynes). 
The Black-breasted Bush-Shrike is only known from the 
Gold Coast Colony and Togoland. 
The type was procured at Accra by the late Governor 
Haynes and is now inthe British Museum. A second example, 
a male, now in the Berlin Museum, was obtained at Agome 
Tongbe in Togoland by Baumann, on May 1, 1894. According 
to Neumann the latter specimen is orange yellow, not orange 
red, on the under parts and the tail-tip yellow, not orange. No 
other specimens have been recorded. 
Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus. 
Tschagra sulfureopectus, Lesson, Traité, p. 373 (1831) Senegal apud 
Newmann. 
Laniarius sulfureipectus, Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii. p. 159 (1883) a part. 
Malaconotus sulfureipectus, Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 769 (1896) 2m part. 
Chlorophoneus sulphureipectus, Sharpe, Handl. B. iv. p. 291 (1903) ; 
Reichen. Vég. Afr. ii. p. 561 (1903) ; Oates and Reid, Cat. B. Eggs, 
B. M. iv. p. 291, pl. xiii. fig. 8 (1905); Reichen. Mittl. Zool. Mus. 
Berl. v. p. 222 (1911) Camaroon. 
