212 ZOOLOGICAL RESEARCHES 



bill. wing, 



cm. cm. 



Gaboon: 6,4—6,5 14,7—15,3 



Gold Coast: 5,4—5,9 14,3—14,6 



Liberia: 5,8—6,4 13,7—14,6 



(The bills are measured in a straight line from the base 

 of the culmen (front) to the tip.) 



Although very rare and not different in its habits from 

 B. hartlauhi , this bird is , on account of its more lively 

 colors , especially its beautiful red bill , more easily ob- 

 tained than the preceding species. 



Iris whitish yellow, bill in quite adult stage entirely 

 coral-red, in younger birds with tip and anterior part of 

 culmen black, feet gray. 



P sittacus timneh. 



Psittacus timiieh, Fras. P. Z. S. 1844, p. 38 ; — Hartl. 

 Orn. W. Afr. p. 167; — Finsch , Papag. II. p. 315; — 

 Schl. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, Revue, p. 10. 



Hab. Liberia and lower parts of Sierra Leone. 



Observed and collected along the St. Paul's , as far as 

 Sofore Place , and in the whole district of Grand Cape 

 Mount, as far as Cobolia, on the Marfa River. 



Although Dr. Finsch, in his celebrated Monograph of 

 the Parrots , is not at all convinced of its being really a 

 separate species , I have not the least doubt that P. timneh 

 is as truly so as P. erythacus itself. They live like P. 

 erythacus , in large flocks , sometimes of many hundreds , 

 together and keep the whole year the same trees for 

 sleeping-places. These colonies give a peculiar attraction to 

 the vast forest-regions of the Interior. Early in the mor- 

 ning, with the first cock-crow, they leave their roosting 

 places crying , whistling and singing , and scatter over 

 the forest in order to seek for food, which consists of 

 different kinds of wild fruits , especially palm-nuts and 

 the seeds of Tamarinds. When the corn and rice begin 



r^otes from the Ley den IMuseura Vol. VII 



