IN WESTEKN LIBERIA. 155 



Milvus aegyp tills. 



Falco aegyptius , Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. p. 261. 



Milvus parasitus, Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 10. 



Milvus aegyptius, Schl. Mus. P.-B. (Milvi) p. 3 (1862); 

 — Sharpe , Cat. Birds Br. Mus. I. p. 320. 



Milvus migrans (part.) , Schl. Mus. P.-B. Revue Accip. 

 p. 126. 



Hab. The whole of Africa and Madagascar , South of 

 Europe. 



Five specimens (old and young from different places). 



The Yellow-Billed Kite is the commonest bird of prey 

 in Liberia. We found it breeding on high , inacces- 

 sible cotton-trees (Eriodendron anfractuosum) , very often 

 in open country near the coast, more seldom in the vici- 

 nity of large rivers in the Interior. It is seen perching 

 on trees along rivers and creeks, and visits, like Haliae- 

 tus angolensis , the sea-shore. Its principal food are small 

 mammals , reptiles , molluscs and fish. Beside the five al- 

 ready mentioned we have shot more than twenty speci- 

 mens, but not a single one had the bill quite black , showing 

 all more or less a yellowish horn-color, becoming a bright 

 orange-yellow in adult specimens. I have little doubt that 

 even quite youug specimens, when alive, can be distin- 

 guished from the closely allied M. migrans by the more or 

 less yellowish color of the bill. 



Iris umber-brown , cere and feet orange- yellow. 



Baza cuculoides. 



Avicida ciicidoides , Swains. B. W. Afr. I. p. 104, pi. 

 1. — Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 10. 



Baza cuculoides (part.) , Schl. Mus. P.-B. Rev. Accip p. 

 133. — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Br. Mus. I. p. 354, pi. 11, 

 fig. 2. 



Hab. From Liberia to the Congo. 



Notes from tlie Leyden ]Miiseutii , Vol. "VII. 



