ZOOLOGICAL RESEARCHES. 



NOTE I. 



ZOOLOGICAL RESEARCHES IN LIBERIA. 

 A LIST OF MAMMALS, 



collected by J. BÜTTIKOFER, C. F. SALA and 

 F. X. STAMPFLI, 



with Biological Observations. 



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Dr. P. A. JENTINK. 



December 1887. 



(Plate 1—4). 



This paper is a continuation of Büttikofer's papers on the 

 zoological researches in Liberia in the Notes from the 

 Leyden Museum, 1885, Vol. VII, p. 129 and 1886, Vol. 

 VIII , p. 243. As well as Büttikofer's list of the birds gives 

 a good impression of the richness of the Avifauna in that 

 part of Africa, so my paper will give an idea of the lux- 

 uriousuess of the Mammalian forms in that country. Our tra- 

 vellers have been happy enough to procure several new species 

 besides specimens of species hitherto only known by mutilated 

 skins or by a single skull , by a single specimen or of which 

 the locality was unknown or uncertain. The collections are the 

 results of four voyages, made by Biittikofer and Sala 

 (January 1880— April 1882), by Stampfli (July 1884— April 

 1886), by Büttikofer and Stampfli (November 1886— May 

 1887) and the continuation of the latter by Mr. Stampfli 

 who is still hunting in Eastern Liberia, but intends to 

 return within a few months. In the above mentioned paper 



Notes from tlie Leyden IMusetim, Vol. X. 



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