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and fond of penetrating the thick scrub on the borders of 
bushes and of hopping about among the branches of the lower 
trees. Further north Swynnerton found it in various locali- 
ties in Gazaland. He describes it as very shy, and difficult to 
detect in the thick foliage of the trees in which it lives; its 
song was loud and musical, and interspersed with harsher 
“Tyiurr” notes. On the Zambesi Alexander met with it 
between Zumbo and the Kafue, and writes: “This uncommon 
Shrike is seldom seen away from thick woods, being of an 
extremely shy nature.” 
In Nyasaland it was obtained only once at Chiromo by 
Whyte, but in German and British East Africa it has been met 
with by Fischer, Neumann, Hildebrandt, and Kirk at various 
localities; while Erlanger took a single specimen at Solole 
in the lower valley of the Juba River between Bardera and 
Kasmayu. 
Sheppard found a nest near Beira on December 17, 1909. 
It was built in a low bush in thick woods, and was a some- 
what rough structure of twigs, grass, fibrous roots, and bits 
of bamboo leaves. It was cup-shaped, and measured three 
inches across the top, inside diameter. The eggs are described 
by Sheppard as closely resembling those of Pycnonotus layardt. 
They were three in number and measured 0°62 x 0°87. 
The British Museum contains examples from the following 
localities :— 
Zululand (Woodward bBros.); Rhodesia — Gazaland 
(Swynnerton); Zambesi River—Shupanga and Tete (Kirk), 
between Zumbo and the Kafue (Alexander); Nyasaland— 
Chiromo (Whyte); Portuguese Hast Africa — Coguno (C, 
Grant), Rovuma River (Thomson); German Hast Africa— 
Kilimanjaro (Percival); British Hast Africa—Lamu (Kirk). 
