230 ZOOLOGICAL RESEAJICHES 



Although far from being a common bird in Liberia , this 

 Dove was occasionally met with at most of our hunting 

 stations. In its manners it differs somewhat from the other 

 Ground Doves , as we found it several times sitting in high 

 forest trees. 



Iris brown , bill blackish , feet red. 



Numida cristata. 



Numida cristata , Pall. Spic. zool., p. 15 , pi. 2 ; — Hartl. 

 Orn. W. Afr. p. 199 ; — F. & Hartl. Yog. 0. Afr. p. 572 ; ~ 

 Boc. Orn. d'Ang. p. 399. 



Hab. West Africa , from Sierra Leone to Benguella , East- 

 ern Africa. 



Collected at Bavia and Buluma. 



Although a well-known bird throughout Liberia, the Crest- 

 ed Guinea Fowl is only obtained with difficulty , on ac- 

 count of its extreme shyness and ability in hiding itself, 

 whenever it is occasionally met with. We have never seen 

 it on open plains, but always killed it while watch- 

 ing for Antelopes and the like in brushwood or high 

 forest. Now and then it is caught in snares, especially in 

 narrow passages through dense brushwood. 



Iris in adult specimens grayish brown, naked skin on 

 head and neck cobalt-blue, except chin and throat, which 

 are minium-red, bill horny yellow, blue at the base, feet 

 brownish lead-color. 



An immature specimen from Buluma has the head fea- 

 thered , the plume not developed , and the iris dark brown. 



Agelastes meleagrides. 



Agelastes meleagrides (Temm.), Bonap. P. Z. S. 1849, p. 

 145; — Schl., Handl. Dierk. 1857, Vog. fig. 57; id. de 

 Dierentuin, 1872, p. 220, with fig. 



Agelastus meleagrides, Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 200. 



A male specimen, collected at Sofore Place. 



IS'otes from the Leyden Museum, ^Vol. VII. 



