NEW LIBERfAN BIRDS. 97 



NOTE XXIII. 

 ON TWO PROBABLY NEW BIRDS FROM LIBERIA. 



BY 



J. BÜTTIKOFER. 



Drymocataphus johnsoni, n. sp. 

 Drymocatapfms cleaveri, Bütt. N. L. M. 1888, p. 77. 



Forehead, crown and nape black, a broad eyebrow of 

 ashy white , beginning at the base of the nasal groove and 

 extending over the eye to the sides of the neck; before 

 and below the eye a narrow edging of black feathers, ear- 

 coverts blackish , upper surface of body dark olive-brown, 

 somewhat rufescent on the rump and still more so on the 

 upper tail-coverts, quills sooty brown, primaries narrowly, 

 secondaries very broadly edged with the color of the rump, 

 greater wing-coverts broadly edged with the color of the 

 back , the lesser entirely of that color, under wing-coverts 

 dark fulvous brown. Tail dark rufous brown , strongly 

 waved under certain lights. Chin , throat , breast and ab- 

 domen white, sides of neck and chest ashy gray, sides of 

 body and under tail-coverts faintly tinged with rusty. Iris 

 reddish brown , upper mandible black , lower whitish, feet 

 pale flesh-color. Wing 7 cM. ; tail 5,5 ; bill 1,6; tarsus 2,6. 



My excellent friend Mr. Sharpe , who kindly compared 

 this specimen for me with D. cleaveri in the British Mu- 

 seum , writes me as follows: » Close to D. cleaveri, but a 

 darker bird , not so rufous on the wings ; sides of body 

 pale , not tawny buff. The chest and fore-neck are decidedly 

 ashy gray, the other being whitish ashy." 



Loc. Hill Town , Du Queah River. 



I am much pleased in dedicating this new Bird, which 

 1 collected during my second stay in Liberia , to His Ex- 

 cellency Dr. H. R. W. Johnson , the President of the Li- 

 berian Republic , who rendered us many valuable services 



-Notes from the Leytlen Museum, Vol. XI. 



