IN WESTERN LIBERIA. 195 



pi. 83; — Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 130; — Boc. Orn. d'Ang. 

 p. 556. 



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



Collected at Bendo (Fisherman Lake), where it was met 

 with in brushwood. 



Iris blood-red, bill black, feet sooty brown. 



Sycohius cr is tat us. 



Malimhus cristatus, Vieill. Ois. chant, pi. 42. 



Sycohius cristaiics , Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 132; — Boc. 

 Orn. d'Ang. p. 331. 



Hab. West Africa, from Liberia to the Congo. 



Collected at Bavia , St. Paul's River. 



This beautiful bird inhabits the underwood of the vir- 

 gin forest, from where it visits the brushwood and thickets 

 of old , abandoned farms. In the Cape Mount Country , 

 where other species of Sycohius are pretty common , we 

 have never met this bird. 



Iris brown, bill and feet black. 



aS_^ cohius Tuhi'icollis. 



Textor ruhricollis, Swains. Anim. in Menag. p. 306 (1838). 



Euplectes rufovelatus , Fras. Zool. typ. pi. 46. 



Sycohius malimhus, Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 132, 



Malimhus ruhricollis, Elliot, Ibis 1876, p. 461. 



Sycohius ruhricollis, Boc. Orn. d'Ang. p. 332. 



Hab. West Africa, from Liberia to the Congo. 



Collected at Sofore Place and near Bendo. 



These birds are found in clearings , sitting on isolated 

 trees and stumps, watching for insects. A female bird 

 from Bendo, which I believe to be adult, is exactly like 

 the adult male, except the front which is black, like in 

 the specimen on the back-ground of the above cited plate 

 in Fraser's Zoologia typica. Three full-grown young males 

 from Sofore Place are similar to the above mentioned fe- 



Notes from the Leyden IMixseum, "Vol. "VII. 



