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This bird is a very good singer and lives preferably in 

 the underwood of the high forest along the water. 

 Iris brown , bill and feet lead-color. 



Criniger leucopleurus. 



Phyllastrephus leucopleurus^ Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 1855, 

 p. 328; — Hartl. Oru. W. Afr. p. 89. 



Trichophorus nivosus , Hartl. J. f. 0. 1855, p. 356; id. 

 Orn. W. Afr. p. 84. 



Xenocichla leucopleura, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Br. Mus. VI. 

 p. 104. 



Hab. West Africa , from Senegambia to the Congo. 



Collected near Soforé Place (St. Paul's) and at Buluma 

 (Fisherman Lake). 



Found , like the former , in thickets and the undergrowth 

 of high forest. It has a rich melodious song and contri- 

 butes much to the interruption of the silence in the forest 

 region. 



Iris dark brown , bill brown , feet lead-color. 



Criniger eximius. 



Trichophorus eximius, Hartl. J. f. 0. 1856, p. 356; id. 

 Orn. W. Afr. p. 85. 



Criniger eximius , Sharpe , Cat. Birds Br. Mus. VI. p. 88. 



Hab. Liberia and the Gold Coast. 



Collected near Soforé Place (St. Paul's). 



This species inhabits , like its congeners , the high forest 

 and occasionally visits the thickets of abandoned plantations. 



Iris red, bill grayish horn-color, feet reddish brown. 



Xenocichla syndactyla. 



Dasycephala syndactyla, Swains. Birds "W. Afr. I. p. 261. 

 Xenocichla syndactyla, Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 86; — 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Br. Mus. VI. p. 101. 



Notes from the Leyden Miuseum, Vol. "VII, 



