IN WESTERN LIBERIA. 



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Meg alaima scolopacea. 



Xylohucco scolopaceus , Bonap, Consp. Av. I. p. 141; — 

 Boc. Orn. d'Ang. p. 108. 



Barhatula scolopacea^ Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 174. 



Megalaima scolopacea , Goffin , Mus. P.-B., Buccones , 

 p. 47. 



Hab. West Africa, from Liberia to the Loango Coast. 



Collected near Bavia, also observed at Sofore Place. 



Habits the same as in the two preceding species. 



Iris pale yellow , bill black , feet grayish green. 



Gymnobucco calvus. 



Bucco calvus, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1841, p. 241. 



Gymnobucco calvus, Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 174; — 

 Rchw. J. f. 0. 1875, p. 8; — Boc. Orn. d'Ang. p. 540. 



Megalaima calva (partim), Goffin, Mus. P.-B., Bucco- 

 nes, p. 49. 



Gymnocranus calvus, Rchw. J. f. 0. 1877, p. 17. 



Hab. West Africa, from Liberia to the Loango Coast. 



Collected at Sofore Place and near Buluma. 



As in all ray 6 collected specimens, amongst which 

 adult of both sexes and an immature male , the tufts be- 

 hind the nostrils are wanting, I incline to the opinion of 

 Drs. Hartlaub and Reichenow, I.e., who separate such 

 specimens specifically from the tufted G. peli. Mr. Gof- 

 fin , I.e., unites both species, on account of a most pecu- 

 liar freak of chance , all his specimens with tufts at the 

 nostrils {G. peli) being males, while all specimens wanting 

 those tufts (G. calvus) were females. Though it is easy 

 enough to distinguish adult specimens of both species on 

 account of the above mentioned tufts and the white shaft- 

 Notes from, the Leyclen IMizseum, Vol. "VII. 



