156 ZOOLOGICAL RESEARCHES 



One specimen (adult male) from Buluma (Fisherman Lake). 



I believe this species to be very rare, as I had only 

 once the chance of killing one, i. e. the male of a pair, 

 inhabiting a deserted old farm. All I tried to get the 

 female bird also, which came up as soon as the male was 

 shot, vï^ould not help, and the next day it had left the 

 place for ever. The stomach of my specimen was empty, 

 but as far as I could observe the mentioned pair, they 

 must feed almost exclusively upon locusts , which are abun- 

 dant in that place. 



Iris red, cere and feet orange 



Total length 37, wing 28,6, tail 19, tarsus 2,6, middle 

 toe 3 cm. 



Caprimulgus cinnamomeus. 



Caprimulgus cinnamomeus, Sharpe, Ibis, 1871, p. 414. 



Hab. Liberia and Gold Coast. 



Tvro specimens, one a female, the other of undetermi- 

 ned sexe , both quite similar in color and size , were col- 

 lected at Buluma, near the Fisherman Lake. 



Like its congeners, the Red Goatsucker hides itself , du- 

 ring the day, in brushwood and is met with in the eve- 

 ning, short after sunset, on barren ground, like farms 

 and footpaths , where it can be approached very nigh , 

 flying off, when disturbed, and coming down directly to 

 the same spot again. 



L'is black , bill flesh-color , with black tip , feet flesh- 

 color. 



Scotornis longicaudus. 



Caprimulgus longicaudus, Drap. Diet, class. VI. p. 169. 



Scotornis climacurus , (Vieill.) , Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 23. 



Hab. Western and Eastern Africa. 



Collected near Grand Cape Mount. 



All my Liberian specimens are much darker than those 



Notes from the Leyden TMuseum , Vol. VU. 



