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121. Querquedula Hartlauhi, Cass. 



Querquedula ct/anoptera, Hartl. (apud Temm.) Orn. W. 

 Afr. p. 248. 



Querquedula Hartlaubi, Cass. Pr. Acad. N. Sc. Philad. 

 1858, p. 175; — Boc. Orn. d'Ang. p. 503 (1881). 



Anas cuprea, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Anseres, p. 62 (1866). 

 1 specimen (cf), 8 Febr., Junk River. 



»Iris brown, bill black with a white crossband behind 

 the tip, feet black." 



122. Sterna cantiaca , Gm. 



Butt. 1. c. p. 249. 



1 specimen, upper Junk River, near Oldfield. 



123. Hydrochelidon nigra (Briss.). 



Butt. 1. c. p. 250. 



2 specimens, lower Junk River. 



124. Stercorarius cephus (Briinn.). 



Lestris cephus, Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 253. 

 1 specimen (cf), on the seashore, Monrovia. 

 »Iris dark brown, bill black, feet gray, toes partially black." 



125. Heliornis senegalensis , Vieill. 



Podica senegalensis , Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 249 ; — 

 Boc. Orn. d'Ang. p. 487. 



Heliornis senegalensis, Schl. Mus. P.-B., Urinatores , p. 49. 

 6 specimens , backwaters and Mangrove along the Junk River. 



»Iris pale brown, bill coral-red, culmen black, feet 

 coral-red." 



Amongst the males which constantly seem to be larger 

 than the females, there exist two different dresses which I 

 do not know to attribute neither to the age nor to the time on 

 which they were killed. One of these dresses is similar with 



Notes Irom the Leyden IMuseura, Vol. VIII. 



