434 CHLOROPHONEUS RUDOLFI 
Sclater, R.E., Chief of Sir Harry Johnston’s staff, as the 
type was obtained during his visit to the Milanji hills in 
September, 1893. It appears to be not uncommon in other 
parts of Nyasaland, as there are in the British Museum 
collection in addition to those from Milanji, others from Fort 
Lister, Mt. Malosa and Zomba, all collected by Whyte, and 
one from south Angoniland, collected by Manning. 
Recently Swynnerton has obtained this species in Gaza- 
land, on the eastern border of S. Rhodesia, where he found 
it quite common in the patches of forest. He speaks very 
highly of the song, and states: “ Unlike Ayres, in the case 
of the nearly allied L. rwbiginosus, I have found this bird to 
sing freely all the year round, and during my stay in the 
Jihu last winter its wonderfully varied notes were constantly 
to be heard. On November 21 I found a nest loosely placed 
8 ft. from the ground in some small twigs of an Acacia in 
the grass-jungle close to my camp on the Kurumadzi. 
Externally it was composed chiefly of the tendrils and stems 
of Rhoicissus, with a thick lining of the fine terminal twigs 
of the thornless wild asparagus; it was a shallow nest, the 
cup being only 1°25 inches deep, and contained one unfledged 
nestling. The stomachs examined contained large larve, 
beetles, hymenoptera, and a mantis.” 
Five examples obtained by Mr. Swynnerton are preserved 
in the British Museum; though showing slight traces of the 
white eyebrow characteristic of C. rubiginosus, they are cer- 
tainly more close to C. bertrandi. 
Chlorophoneus rudolfi. 
Laniarius rubiginosus rudolfi, Hartert Bull. B. O. C. xxiii. p. 10, 1908 
50 m. W. of L. Albert Edward ; id. Noy. Zool. 1909, p. 335 W. of 
Lake Tanganyika. 
Adult male. Differs from C. rubiginosus and C. bertrandi in having 
dark yellow tips to the outer rectrices. 
