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with its song and the attachment it proved to have to my 

 station, that I was not able to kill it. A few days before 

 new-year, just after I had decided to get hold on it, I 

 found that it had left the place. 



Camaroptera hrevicaudata. 



Sylvia hrevicaudata , Cretzschm. in Riipp. Atlas , Vög. p. 

 53, pi. 35. 



Camaroptera hrevicaudata (part,), Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. 

 p. 62; — Boc. Orn. d'Ang. p. 280; — Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 Br. Mus. VII. p. 168. 



Hab. The tropical part of Eastern and Western Africa. 



An adult male collected near Monrovia. 



Iris pale brown , bill black , feet flesh-color. 



Motacilla vidua. 



Motacilla vidua, Sundev. Oefv. Vetensk. Akad, Förhandl. 

 1850, p. 128; — Finsch and Hartl., Vög. Ost- Afr. p. 263; 

 — Boc. Orn. d'Angola, p. 291. 



Hab. Africa below the Sahara , Egypt ; Palestiue (Tristram). 



Collected at Bavia, on rocky Islands in the St. Pauls 

 River. 



Plentiful on the sand-banks and bare rocks which, on 

 account of the dry season , grow larger every day , till they 

 become covered again by the rising water in the rainy 

 season. 



Two young specimens in my possession show the same 

 coloration as the adult ones, only is the dark color, the 

 collar round the fore-neck included , grayish brown instead 

 of black. Not the least difference can be found between 

 my Liberian specimens and five other ones of the same 

 species from the Cape, contained in the Leyden Museum. 



Iris, bill and feet black. 



Notes from the Leyden ]Mu.seu.ixi, "Vol. "VII. 



