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breast, and belly scarlet ; the vent, under tail-coverts, and 

 thiglis brownish cinnamon. The feathers of the lower 

 back and rump are soft, considerably lengthened and very 

 voluminous, with concealed subterminal white spots. 



Dr. Gadow (Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 104, 1883), in his 

 Key to the Genera of Malaconotime, seems to infer that 

 in the genus Laniarius the feathers of the lower back are 

 not fluffy as in Dryoscopiis ; but, as already stated, this 

 is a mistake, though possibly due to the way in which 

 the key is worded. The remarkabW handsome species, 

 L. barbarus, which ranges from Senegal to the Niger, has 

 always been readily recognised from all other species of 

 Laniarius by its yellow crown ; but last year a new species 

 of the same type was discovered in the Mufumbiro Yolcanos, 

 and specimens were brought home almost simultaneously 

 by Mrs. M. Roby and Mr. T. V. Fox. As will be seen by 

 the accompanying Plate, this novelty is easily recognised by 

 having the median wing-coverts broadly tipped with white, 

 and the thighs, vent, and under tail-coverts whitish instead 

 of light cinnamon-brown. It is, moreover, a much smaller 

 bird, and has a wide black eyebrow-stripe separating the 

 more ochraceous yellow crown from the eye ; in L. barbarus 

 the dull golden-yellow crown is narrowly separated from the 

 eye by a black line, which is sometimes wanting. 



The bird presented to the Museum by Mrs. Roby was 

 said to have been obtained by that adventurous traveller 

 at Vichumbi, at the south end of Lake Edward, on the 4th 

 of December, 1910. A female procured by Mr. Fox was 

 shot at Ruchuduru, Ruchigga, on the 19th of July, 1911. 

 Mrs. Roby's specimen, which had been mummified with 

 formalin, Avas with difficulty made into a skin, and it Avas 

 impossible to ascertain the sex. 



The species may be described as follows : — 



Laniarius mufumbiri. 

 Laniarius mufumbiri Ogilvie-Grant, Bull. B. O. C. xxix. 

 p. 30 (1911). 



Adult. Resembles L. barbarus Linn., but is considerably 



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