102 ZOOLOGICAL RESEARCHES 



138. Numenius phaeopus (Linn.). 



Butt. N. L. M. 1885, p. 243. 



Common on the sand- and mud-banks of the Junk 

 River at ebb-tide. 



139. T ot anu s cane s c ens (Gm.). 



Butt. N. L. M. 1885, p. 244; id. 1886, p. 266. 



Large flocks along the Barguay River , and on every 

 suitable place in the coast-region. 



140. T ot anu s hypoleucos (Linn.). 



Butt. N. L. M. 1885, p. 244; id. 1886, p. 266. 



Single specimens of this Sandpiper were met with 

 along the Du ^Queah until up to the falls , as well as on 

 all the other rivers I visited during my stay in Liberia. 



141. 2 ring a sub a r q u at a (Güld.). 



Butt. N. L. M. 1885, p. 244. 



One specimen shot in a brackwater-lagoon on the Bar- 

 guay River. 



142. Ra Llina oculea. 



Gallinula oculea^ Hartl. (ex Temm. M. S.) J. f. 0. 1855, p. 357. 



Rallus oculeus^ Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 241. 



Rallina oculea, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Ralli , p. 20 (1865). 



An adult male , shot in a swampy inlet of the Du Queah, 

 near Hill Town. 



Iris reddish brown, bill green, feet brown, soles yellow. 



143. Corethrura pulchra. 



Crex pulchra, J. E. Gray, Zool. Misc. I, p. 13; — Schl. Mus. P.-B. 



Ralli, p. 26 (1865). 

 Ortygometra pulchra, Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 241. 



One specimen , Hill Town , in low , swampy forest. 

 Iris red , bill grayish green , feet reddish brown. 



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