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Iris reddish brown , wattles red , bill black , feet purplish 

 gray. 



71. Cassinia finschii. 



Cassinia flnschi., Sharpe, Ibis 1870, pp. 53, 474, pi. 2. fig. 2; id. 

 Cat. Birds Br. Mus. IV. p. 467 (1879). 



Adult male and female, killed in low forest near Hill Town. 

 Iris reddish brown , bill black , feet flesh-color. No dif- 

 ference in color between male and female. 



72. Dicrurus atripennis^ Sw. 



Butt. N. L. M. 1885, p. 183; id. 1886, p. 257. 

 Collected near Hill Town. 



73. Dicrurus modestus^ Hartl. 



Butt. N. L. M. 1885, p. 183; id. 1886. p. 257. 



Amongst my specimens from Hill Town there is a half- 

 grown male, which shows the same coloration as the adult 

 bird , so that it could impossibly be mistaken for his Li- 

 berian congener D. atripennis. 



Both species of this genus are very lively and noisy 

 birds, which sometimes live in flocks of twelve to twenty 

 specimens in low forest. Their voice is very harsh. 



74. Fraseria cinerascens (Hartl.). 



Butt. N. L. M. 1885, p. 184. 



An adult male from Hill Town. 



75. Si g mo du s caniceps, Bp. 



Biitt. N. L. M. 1886, p. 257. 



Several specimens from Hill Town and Schiefielinsville. 



76. Laniarius multicolor. 



Laniarius niuUicolor, Gray, Gen. B. I. p. 299, pi. 72; — Cass. Proc. 

 Ac. Philad. 1855, p. 439; — Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 108; — 

 Gadow, Cat. Birds Br. Mus. VIII. p. 158 (1883). 



Two specimens, a fully adult female and male, were 



Notes from the Leyden Miixseum, Vol. X. 



