CHLOROPHONEUS BERTRANDI 433 
chiefly longitudinal in shape; they measure about 0'9 x 0°5. 
The number of the clutch is not given. 
The examples in the British Museum examined are as 
follows: Cape Colony—Knysna (Andersson), Grahamstown 
(Atmore), King Williamstown (Trevelyan), Pondoland (Wood- 
ward) ; Natal— Durban (Gordge and Ayres), Newcastle 
(Butler); Zululand—Lower Umfolozi (Woodward), Sibudeni 
and Ngoye (C. Grant); T’ransvaal—-Macamac (Ayres), Lyden- 
burg (Barrett), Woodbush and Legogot (Grant). 
Chlorophoneus bertrandi. 
Laniarius bertrandi, Shelley, Ibis, 1894, p. 15, pl. 2, fig. 2 Milanjz ; 
Swynnerton, Ibis, 1907, p. 48, 1908, p. 57 Gazaland. 
Pelicinius bertrandi, Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 767 (1896). 
Chlorophoneus bertrandi, Reichen. Vég. Afr. ii. p. 559 (1903); Sharpe, 
Handl. B. iv. p. 292 (1903). 
Male. Very similar to C. rubiginosus, but differs in being a rather 
larger bird with a stronger bill; head with the black extending rather 
further forward over the white loral patch, and with scarcely any indication 
of the white eyebrow; flanks, thighs and under tail-coverts shaded with 
olive; tail black with yellowish tips and greenish margins to the two outer 
pairs of feathers; in some cases, apparently males but perhaps very old 
females, the tail is green, as in the type originally described. ‘Iris bright 
madder brown, bill black, feet blue-grey’’’ (Swynnerton). Total length 7:8 
inches, culmen 0°75, wing 3:4, tail 3-4, tarsus 1:0. Milanji, 18. 4. 93 
(A. Whyte). 
Female. Differs in the colouring of the head, neck and under parts ; 
upper half of head and entire hinder half of neck grey, with a little white 
in front of the eye; under parts whitish, and a pale rufous shade on the 
crop; flanks and thighs washed with green. Wing 32. Milanji, ? , 25.4.93 
(A. Whyte). 
Immature. Has the under parts mottled and barred and no rufous on 
the crop. 
This species takes the place of its close ally C. rubiginosus, 
from which it is hardly more than subspecifically distinct, 
north of the Limpopo River, and ranges northwards to 
Nyasaland. It was named after Captain Bertram Lh. 
