IN LIBERIA. 61 



hilly country which is for a great deal thickly covered 

 with primeval forest. 



In the beginning of 1887 I removed to Hill Town, a 

 small native town on the banks of the Du Queah. Here , 

 in that thickly wooded country, I was much engaged in 

 collecting large mammals, amongst which many rare spe- 

 cies , as the Chimpansee , Antilope euryceros , Cephalophus 

 doria , Hyrax dorsalis and Choeropsis liheriensis , and but 

 little time was left for bird-shooting. Nevertheless I ob- 

 tained many very interesting species and was able to state, 

 for the second time in Liberia , the occurrence of Columba 

 unicincta. From here I made an excursion by canoe to the 

 falls of the Du Queah , where I found , under the same 

 conditions as formerly on the St. Paul's River , Glareola 

 megapoda , together with Motacilla vidua , and , peculiar 

 enough, our common Sandpiper. Along all the rivers I 

 happened to visit in Liberia, I looked out in vain for 

 Aegialites forhesi, the W. African representative of A. tri- 

 collaris , which I the more expected to meet with , as it 

 was discovered in about the same localities as the type of 

 Glareola megapoda. 



During February and March I resided at Schieffelinsville, 

 while my friend Mr. Stampfli took my place at Hill Town. 

 Unfortunately enough I suffered nearly all this time with 

 malaria and dysentery, a disease which made me entirely 

 unable to do any work and compelled me at last to remove 

 to Monrovia. After having recovered a little , I was afraid 

 to return immediately to the unhealthy station at Schieffe- 

 linsville and preferred to make a some weeks trip along 

 the lower coast of Liberia. I had never visited this part 

 of Liberia before , and though I did not expect collecting 

 very much , I hoped to be able to make out how far down 

 the many specific Liberian animals, as the small Hippo- 

 potamus , both species of Liberian white-nose-monkeys , 

 Antilope doria and sylvicultriv , the Liberian gray Parrot 

 and Agapornis sioinderniana , Buceros semifasciatus and 

 other interesting species would range. By steamer I went 



Notes frora the Leyden JMuseum, "Vol. X. 



