Claim: Laniarius, a carnivorous passerine bird, are throughout Africa and known as "Boubou" and "Bushshrike".
Evidence: Laniarius is a genus of brightly coloured, carnivorous passerine birds commonly known as boubous or gonoleks. Not to be confused with the similar-sounding genus Lanius, they were formerly classed with the true shrikes in the family Laniidae, but they and related genera are now considered sufficiently distinctive to be separated from that group as the bush-shrike family Malaconotidae. The bushshrikes are smallish passerine birds. Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Togo, and Uganda. Nigeria, Bioko; Rwanda, Burundi and adjacent areas of Uganda and Democratic Republic of the Congo. Uganda and Democratic Republic of the Congo. Burundi and Uganda Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Angola Angola. Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia Somalia and northern Kenya. Eritrea, Ethiopia, northwest Somalia, and northern Kenya. sub-Saharan Africa southeast Somalia to northeast Tanzania, and Zanzibar island.