Birds fro^n Soiii/iern Abyssinia. G25 



Coracina cassia (Liclit.) ; p. 221, & Coracina pura 

 (Sharpe); p. 222, Shelley & Sclater, B. Afr. v. pt. ii. (1912). 



A pair of the Grey Cuckoo-Shrike were procured, the 

 female at KafEa in June and the male at Baku in July. In 

 both specimens the wing measures 120 mm. 



200. Coracina pectokalts. 



Coracina pecto7^alis (Jard, & Selby) ; Shelley & Sclater, 

 B. Afr. V. pt. ii. p. 218 (1912). 



A female of the Pectoral Cuckoo-Shrike was shot at Baku 

 in July. In Shelley's woi'k, quoted above, we are told that 

 the sexes are alike, but this is probably a mistake. As tl\e 

 authority for this statement a specimen in the British 

 Museum, procured at Salisbury by Mr. G. A. K. jNIarshall, 

 is quoted. This bird has the throat grey as in the male ; 

 tliere is likewise a second specimen, from Cacouda, in male 

 plumage marked as a female. In all the remaining female 

 specimens, including that obtained by Zaphiro, the throat 

 is white. 



201. Campephaga phcenicea. 



Campephaga phcenicea (Lath.) ; Shellej^ & Sclater, B. Afr. 

 V. pt. ii. p. 210 (1912). 



Campephaga xantliornoides (Less.) ; Shelley & Sclater, 

 t. c. p. 213. 



The Red-shouldered Cuckoo-Shrike was procured in 

 almost every part of the country visited, at elevations ranging 

 from 2000 feet (Sagan River) to GOOO feet (Charada Forest 

 in KafFa, and Kambata). 



In the Charada Forest a male of the orange-chrome- 

 shouldered variety, C. xaathornoides (Lesson), was shot 

 along with normally coloured scarlet-shouldered males, and 

 there can be no doubt that it is merely a colour-variety of 

 C. phcenicea. The two forms are met with side by side from 

 Tigre southwards to Victoria Nyanza and westwards to the 

 Gold Coast and Senegambia. 



Probably C. rothschildi Neumann, from the south of Lake 

 Stefanie, is also merely a variety of C. phonicea. 



