CHLOROPHONEUS SULFUREOPECTUS 429 
from Malange in northern Angola obtained by Ansorge shows 
no appreciable difference from the south African forms, and 
the same is the case with examples from British Hast Africa 
and Abyssinia. I have, therefore, included all the south and 
east African specimens under one heading, C. s. similis, as 
distinguishable from the west African typical C. sulfureopectus. 
In Senegambia, in addition to the types of Lesson and 
Swainson already mentioned, the typical race has been 
obtained by Verreaux at Casamanse, and by Rendall in the 
Gambia colony, but it was never met with by Biittikofer in 
Liberia. Ussher procured this bird at Denkera on the Gold 
Coast, and Mr. T. E. Buckley and I found it rather sparingly 
distributed, though most abundant at Accra, where we met 
with them among the scattered bushes of the plains, from 
which it was most difficult to drive them; their alarm note 
is harsh and not musical. 
The subspecies C. s. similis is found all over the rest of 
Africa and is not always distinguishable from the west African 
typical form. There is an example in the British Museum 
from Durban, and another in the Tring Museum from Barberton, 
in which the ear-coverts are quite as black as in those from 
the Gold Coast. 
In South Africa the Orange-breasted Bush-Shrike ranges 
over the eastern half of Cape Colony from the Albany 
division eastwards to Natal and Zululand. In the Transvaal 
it is only found in the bushveld of Lydenburg and Zout- 
pansberg, and along the upper valley of the Limpopo, but 
in Rhodesia and along the Zambesi it is not uncommon. 
Swynnerton states that it is very shy, but that he constantly 
heard its clear cry of “ pipitye pipitye,” often continuing long 
after sunset. Its alarm note is harsh like that of Malaconotus 
hypopyrrhus.® Its food, as shown by an examination of its 
stomach contents, consisted of beetles, larvee, and large hairy 
caterpillars. 
