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utter them was something like the creaking of a rusty 

 binge. 



Our specimens were shot the 31*^ of May and the 2"'^ 

 of June. After Dr. Hartlaub's note on this bird in Ibis 

 1. c, there is but little to say about the adult stage of 

 plumage. I will only mention that all the tail-feathers 

 are black at the base; the rest of the two central ones 

 is uniform green. The five lateral pairs are better called 

 black, broadly banded across with scarlet and tipped 

 with green. The adult male is not different from the fe- 

 male. The full-grown young male differs from the adult 

 ones by the want of the black collar across the neck, 

 which is only indicated by some black feathers on each 

 side , and by a somewhat duller green color. 



Iris yellow, maxilla black, lower mandible bluish horn- 

 gray, feet gray. 



Pogonorhynchus hirsutus. 



Pogonias hirsutus , Swains. Zool. Illustr. II. pi. 72 ; id. 

 Birds W. Afr. II. p. 172; — Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 172. 



Pogonorhynchus hirsutus^ Goffin, Mus. P.-B., Bucco- 

 nes, p. 11. 



Hab. West Africa, from Sierra Leone to the Loango 

 Coast. 



Four specimens collected at Soforé Place and near Bu- 

 luma. These birds are regularly found in the borders of 

 high forest, where they live in pairs. They are very slug- 

 gish, morose birds, uttering a kind of monotonous song, 

 which the survivor continues with indifference after its 

 mate is shot down, without moving from the spot. They 

 live upon insects and their larvae, picked up from 

 branches and pecked out from under old bark. There is 

 no essential difference between male and female. 



Iris carmineous, bill black, feet blackish gray. 



Notes from the Leyden ÜMuseum, Vol. "VII. 



