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NOTE 11. 



ZOOLOGICAL RESEARCHES IN LIBERIA. 

 A LIST OF BIEDS, 



collected by the Author and Mr. F. X. STAMPFLI 



during their last sojourn in Liberia. 



BY 



J. BÜTTIKOPER. 



(Plate 5). 



As I told in my previous paper on Liberian Ornitho- 

 logy '), Mr. Stampfli and I left for Liberia at the end of 

 October 1886, and arrived at Monrovia, after short stays 

 at Hamburg, Madeira, Teneriffa, Gran Can aria and the 

 Senegal , on the 2Q^^ of November. 



The next day I proceeded in an open sailing boat to 

 Grand Cape Mount to get the servants , which were already 

 hired for me by Mr. Watson, the Liberian Superintendent 

 at Robertsport. Prom this latter place I visited some of 

 ray former stations on the Fisherman Lake , the Japaca 

 Creek and on the Mahfa River. 2) Everywhere I was very 



1) N. L. M. 1886, p. 244. 



2) Erroneously written Marfa R. in my Notes of 1885. Mahfa signifies in 

 the Vey language „not full" (mah = not, fa = full) on account of its being 

 bordered by very high banks. 



Notes from th.e Leyden üMuseum, Vol. X. 



