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stead of green , and chin and throat are strongly tinged 

 with gray. Three other specimens , belonging to the Mu- 

 seum Collection and of which one is from the Gold Coast 

 (Pel) , the second from the Gaboon (Duchaillu) and the 

 third from unknown locality , show the same peculiarities , 

 and very likely they might belong to the species A. cur- 

 virostris Cass, or minor Boc. 



Before 1 have seen , however , a true specimen of those 

 species, I prefer to range them amongst the specimens of 

 A. virens. 



64. Ixonotus guttatus. 



Ixonotus guttatus, Verr. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, p. 306; — 

 Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 88; — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Br. Mus. 

 VI, p. 119 (1881). 



Two specimens from Schieffelinsville. 



Iris yellowish white , bill horny brown , cutting edge 

 of mandibles and basal half of lower mandible whitish , 

 feet leaden gray. Lives in brushwood. 



65. Pycnonotus barbatus (Desf.). 

 Butt. N. L. M. 1885, p. 180; id. 1886, p. 256. 



Very common along the whole coast of Liberia. 



As its peculiar song is heard very early in the morning 

 about the Liberian settlements , it is said to have the duty 

 to wake up the lazy schoolboys and therefore sings with 

 loud voice: » quick, come up, wash your face , go to school , 

 lazy boy." 



66. Terpsiphone nigriceps (Hartl.). 



Butt. N. L. M. 1885. p. 181; id. 1886, p. 256. 



Adult male and female from Schieffelinsville. 



67. Trochocercus nit ens. 



Trochocercus nitens , Casis. Proc. Acad. Philad. 1859, p. 50; id. 

 Journ. Acad. Philad. 2nd series. Vol. 17 4°, p. 325, pi. 50, 

 fig. 4; — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Br. Mus. III. p. 300 (1879). 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum , Vol. X.. 



