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NOTE XXXIV. 

 ZOOLOGICAL RESEARCHES IN LIBERIA. 



ON A SERIES OF BIRDS, 



COLLECTED BY Mb. A. Ï. DEMERY IN THE DISTRICT 



OF GRAND CAPE MOUNT. 



BY 



J. BÜTTIKOPER. 



After having spent nine months' time in our Museum , and 

 thoroughly prepared and fit out to carry on my own invest- 

 igations , Mr. A. T. D emery, the son of my Liberian 

 huntsman Jackson Demery , left for his mother-country in 

 August last year. Immediately after his arrival he went 

 at work and has sent since, amongst many other objects, 

 two small collections of birds from different parts of the 

 district of Grand Cape Mount in Western Liberia. Many 

 of the birds have been collected in the vicinity of Roberts- 

 port, others on the Johny Creek (a confluent of the Fisher- 

 man Lake), and others again at Jarjee, a Golah Town 

 some days travel in the Interior up the Mahfa River. As, 

 besides the two new Zosterops^ several of the 87 or 88 collected 

 species are new for Liberia , and others being rare or of 

 some interest in another way , I consider it sufficiently 

 important to bring forward a full list of them , the more 

 so as Mr. Demery, in January last, has left Liberia for the 

 Sulymah River in the British Colony of Sierra Leone. The 

 species not contained in my List of Liberian Birds, N. L. 

 M. 1889, p. 129—138, will be marked with an asterisc. 



Notes from the Ley den Museum, Vol. XII. 



