48 Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton on the 
from the ground, in the centre of a dense thicket beside a 
stream, and contained two eggs, evidently the full clutch, as 
they were hard-set. They were pale blue in ground-colour, 
spotted and blotched with pale brown and purplish grey, 
thickly at the larger end, more sparsely elsewhere. In one 
ot them these markings formed a well-defined zone round the 
thick end. They measured 24 mm. by 16:5. The bird’s 
stomach contained larvee and a spider. The second specimen, 
a fine male, I shot on the 23rd of March, on the outskirts of 
the Chipete forest-patch. Its crop contained two large 
sphinx-moths and beetles. 
46. LANnriartus BERTRANDI. Bertram’s Bush-Shrike. 
Laniarius bertrandi Shelley, Ibis, 1894, p. 15, pl. 11. fig. 2 
(Nyasaland). . 
I first obtained an example of this species on the outskirts 
of Chirinda in July last year, but have since found it to be 
fairly common in the neighbouring forest-patch of Chipete, 
while in November I shot a male in the large open bush of the 
Jihu, on the Zona-Kurunadzi water-parting. Its call, which 
runs up the scale, ending with the repetition of the highest 
note three or four times, is frequently heard and is very 
pleasant and flute-like. In December, in Chipete, I shot two 
grey-cheeked birds, and am uncertain whether to refer them 
to this species or not: the first was answering, I judged, one 
of the black-cheeked birds (which I also shot) with the same 
ascending note, but, as the bush was dense, I may have been 
mistaken ; the call of the second was certaimly quite different 
—a very liquid rapidly-repeated note, not unlike the ‘ jug- 
Jjug-jug” of a Nightingale, broken by an occasional harsh 
arene: 
This species makes an addition to the South-African list. 
47, LANIARIUS SULPHUREIPECTUS. Orange-breasted Bush- 
Shrike. 
In August 1899 I shot a male of this beautiful species in 
a wooded kloofin Mafusi’s country (alt. 4000 feet), the third 
which I had seen within a few days. I have since secured 
a second specimen on the wooded banks of the Lower 
