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the coast. It has a very uice quavering song but is much 

 more quiet and makes not the evolutions of its congener 

 M. alhicollis. When singing , it sits tolerably erect on a dry 

 isolated twig , about 20' above the ground , almost exposed 

 to the hot sun, and let, while warbling, hang down its 

 splendid red throat-feathers. Along the Marfa River I found 

 them hunting in flocks of 6 to 10 specimens after flies and 

 mosquitos, plunging now and then, in pursuit of their 

 pray, into the water. 



Iris red, bill black, feet dark brown. 



Cinny ris verticalis. 



Certhia verticalis, Lath. Ind. Orn. I. p. 198. 



Nectarinea cyanocephala (cT) and verticalis (?), Hartl. 

 Orn. W. Afr. pp. 49 and 50. 



Cinny ris verticalis, Shelley, Mon. Nect. p. 301, pi. 97; 

 — Gadow, Cat. Birds Br. Mus. IX. p. 80. 



Nectarinia cyanocephala, Boc, Orn. d'Ang. p. 171. 



Hab. West Africa, from Senegambia to the Quanza. 



Collected at Robertsport and Monrovia (Grave-yard). 



This species is found in farms and brushwood. 



Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 



Cinny ris fuliginosa. 



Certhia f uliginosa, Shaw, Gen. Zool. VIII, p. 222. 



Nectarinea fuliginosa, Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 43; — 

 Boc. Orn. d 'Angola , p. 163. 



Nectarinea aurea, Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 44. 



Cinnyris fuliginosus , Shelley, Mon. Nect. p. 275, pi. 

 86; — Gadow, Cat. Birds Br. Mus. IX. p. 95. 



Hab. West Africa, from the Senegal to the Congo. 



Two specimens (male and female) collected near Mon- 

 rovia and Robertsport. 



This species seems to be not common in Liberia, as I 

 was not able to get a larger series of specimens. Like its 



N"otes from tlie Leyden Museum, "Vol. "VII. 



