CHLOROPHONEUS OLIVACEUS 435 
Chlorophoneus olivaceus. 
Lanius olivaceus, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 330 (1809) 9 ex Levaillant. 
Laniarius olivaceus, Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii. p. 161 (1883) ; W. Scl. and 
Stark, Bds. 8S. Afr. ii. p. 38 (1901); Shortridge, Ibis, 1904, p. 183, 
Pondoland ; C. Taylor, J. S. Afr. Orn. Union, 1907, p. 20 Ermelo 
dist.; Haagner and Ivy, ibid, p. 90 Albany. 
Pelicinius olivaceus, Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 768 (1896). 
Chlorophoneus olivaceus, Reichen. Vg. Afr. ii. p. 559 (1903); Sharpe, 
Handl. B. iv, p. 292 (1903). 
Lanius oliva, Wilkes, Encyel. Londin. xii. p. 214 (1814) ex Levaillant. 
L’ Oliva, Levaillant Ois d’ Afr. ii. p. 105, pl. 75, fig. 1 (not fig. 2) Algow 
Bay, Cape Colony. 
The Olive Bush-Shrike is confined to the coast-lands of 
south-east Africa from Knysna in Cape Colony to the lower 
Umfolosi River of Zululand; itis nowhere common and always 
rare in collections. The birds thought to be of this species by 
Swynnerton are no doubt the young of Telophorus quadricolor 
which closely resemble this species, and it would be well to 
examine more critically the examples taken by Taylor in the 
Ermelo district of the Transvaal before extending the range of 
the present species so far. The species was first obtained by 
Levaillant in the neighbourhood of what is now Port Eliza- 
beth, but he confused it with the previous species L. rubi- 
ginosus, considering that the latter was the young of the former, 
and it was only many years afterwards that the confusion 
was put straight by Sundevall. 
Marais obtained an example at Knysna, and Ivy states 
that it is very rare in Albany; Shortridge and the Woodwards 
met with it in Pondoland, and the Woodwards in Zululand as 
well as near Eschowe and on the Umfolosi River. 
Guensius (J. f. O. 1870, p. 214) found the bird not rare in 
Natal. Its song, he tells us, consists of four notes, the first 
three short, the last loud and long. He found a nest about 
eight feet from the ground by the side of a path leading through 
the forest. It was placed on a branch and so carefully con- 
