IN LIBERIA. 



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Stiphrornis alboterminata , Rchw. J. f. 0. 1874, p. 103; id. 1875, 



p. 43; — Sharpe, J. f. 0. 1882, p. 345 ; — Boc. Orn. d'Ang. 



pp. 285, 555; - Sharpe, Cat. Birds Br. Mus. VII. p. 174; — 



Bütt. N. L. M. 1886, p. 250. 

 Anthreptes rectirostris (nee Shaw) Shelley, Mori. Nect. p. XLV (gray 



females); — Bütt. N. h. M. 1888, p. 211. 

 Anthreptes tephrolaema (nee Jard. & Fras.) Shelley, Mon. Nect. p. 



XLVI (gray female); - Bütt. N. L. M. 1888, p. 212. 



Although Mr. Stampfli's collection did not contain any 

 materials, able to throw more light upon the question of 

 our Liberian gray females of Anthreptes , I feel , after a 

 re-examination of our gray specimens , obliged to remove 

 the two unfortunate specimens again and to place them, 

 together with the gray specimen from the Congo , as 

 Anthreptes gabonicus. In my above cited note (1888) I, in 

 conferring Capt. Shelley's remarks (p. XLV), believed the 

 gray specimens from Liberia to belong to A. rectirostris , 

 and that from the Congo to A. tephrolaema , but at present 

 I have strong reasons to doubt their identity with the latter 

 species , notwithstanding their agreeing fully with the des- 

 cription of the adult female as given in Capt. Shelley's 

 remarks. Those reasons are, that by a more careful com- 

 parison of the gray females from Liberia and that from 

 the Congo , which I consider to be fully identical , with the 

 adult male of A. rectirostris, I found in the mentioned 

 gray birds the first (short) primary considerably longer and 

 broader than in the latter, and the fourth quill to be 

 the longest, while in the latter the third is the longest. 

 In both these respects the gray birds agree very well with 

 A. hypodilus , but they are too large to be considered the 

 females of that species. Belonging thus neither to A. hypodilus 

 nor to A. rectirostris, the only two hitherto known repre- 

 sentatives of this genus in Liberia , nor, as I think , to 

 A. tephrolaema , I place them here under the name of A. 

 gabonicus, with which species Dr. Reichenow's Stiphrornis 

 alboterminata is identical. 



The birds (also that from the Congo) were found along 

 river-banks — the same is said by Dr. Reichenow of his 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XI. 



