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Hab. West Africa, from Liberia to the Congo. 

 Three specimens from Sofore Place. 

 All three specimens were shot in high , isolated trees , 

 standing in farms. They have a soft, melodious song. 

 Iris reddish yellow , bill black , feet flesh-color. 



Cis ii cola rufa. 



Drymoeca rufa, Fras. P. Z. S. 1843, p. 17; id. Zool. 

 Typ. pi. 42; — Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 58. 



Cisticola rufa , Sharpe , Cat. Birds Br. Mus. VII. p. 252. 



Hab. West Africa , from Liberia to the Congo. 



Two specimens (male and female) from Grand Cape 

 Mount. 



The male , killed in October , has a very worn plumage , 

 its color generally more inclining to gray than the female. 

 This latter was shot in May, and its freshly moulted plu- 

 mage is more fulvous. Darker shaft-stripes on the upper 

 surface can be seen in both specimens, and also under a 

 certain light narrow cross bars on the tail-feathers. Wing 

 of the male 4,7 cm. , of the female 4,2 cm. 



Iris reddish brown, upper mandible horn-color, lower 

 mandible and feet flesh-color. 



Acrocephalus turdoides. 



Calamoherpe turdoides (Meyer) , Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. 

 pag. 61. 



Acrocephalus turdoides^ Seebohm, Cat. Birds Br. Mus. 

 V. p. 95. 



Observed in Robertsport, Grand Cape Mount. 



It was in the morning of the 2Q^^ of November, when I 

 heard the first time the well-known song of this bird , 

 and from that time I could hear and see it every morning 

 and sometimes all day long in a kind of long reed that 

 grows there on dry , stony ground. It was the only spe- 

 cimen I ever heard in Liberia, and I was so much amused 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, "Vol. VII. 



