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LIST OF BIRDS. 



Sy rnium nuchale. 



Syrnium looodfordi (part.), Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 21. 



Syrnium nuchale, Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 487. — id. Cat. 

 Birds Br. Mus. II. 1875, p. 265. 



Hab. West Coast of Africa, from the Senegal to An- 

 gola, where it represents S. Woodfordii^ Smith, from the 

 Cape. 



One specimen (young male) from the vicinity of Mon- 

 rovia , received in the beginning of April. Having bought 

 the bird alive from second hand , I cannot give any com- 

 munications about its habits. 



Iris, bill and toes yellow. 



It is very "remarkable that, notwithstanding no pains 

 were spared to get hold of the Liberian owls, we were 

 not able to get a single one , except the above mentioned 

 specimen, and therefore I must fully agree with other na- 

 turalists, that generally Owls are very scarce in the tro- 

 pical parts of Western Africa. 



Circus macrourus. 



Circus macrourus, S. G. Gmel. N. Comm. Petrop. XV. 

 p. 439, pis, 8 & 9. (1771), teste Sharpe, 1. c. 



Circus swainsonii, Smith, S. Afr. Q. Journ. I. p. 384 

 (1830). — Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 16. — Schl. Mus. P.-B. 

 Revue Accip. p. 49. 



Circus macrurus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Br. Mus. I. p. 67. 



Hab. The whole of Africa, South of Europe and Asia. 



Two full-grown young males , killed in November at 

 Grand Cape Mount. The few specimens I have met with 

 were all young birds. I have never seen this species far 

 off from the coast and think it will hardly be found in 

 the Interior. They are very fond of young chicken and 

 visit every day at the same hour their regular feeding 



Notes from, tlie Leyden IMuseum , "Vol. VII. 



