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NOTE XXVI. 



ZOOLOGICAL RESEARCHES IN LIBERIA. 

 FOURTH LIST OF BIRDS. 



BY 



J. BÜTTIKOPER. 



(Plate 6). 



Mr. F. X. Stampfli, whom I left in Liberia at the end 

 of May 1887, repatriated last summer and brought home an 

 important number of Birds skius, most of which are col- 

 lected at three stations : Owen's Grove, Mount Olive 

 and Gallilee Mountain on the Farmington River. Only 

 relatively few have been obtained at our old station at 

 Schieffelinsville (March 1888) and at Paynesville 

 on the Messurado River (April 1888). 



The Farmington River is a very important confluent of 

 the Junk River, having its general direction about parallel 

 with the Du Queah River and joining its water with that 

 of the main river half a mile above the mouth of the lat- 

 ter, and seven or eight miles lower than the Du Queah. 

 Going up the Farmington River by canoe, both banks 

 are flat and covered with impenetrable Mangrove-swamps , 

 but after a few miles the banks become higher, the swamps 

 have disappeared and forests , intermixed with grassy plains 

 and some well-cultivated plantations of Liberian Missiona- 

 ries, have entirely changed the aspect of the country. Farther 

 up the river the banks are becoming still higher and very 



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