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Franeolinus Peli, Temiu. Bij dr. tot tie Dierk. 1854, p. 

 50, pi. 15; — Schl. Handl. Dierk. 1857. Vog. fig. 58. 



Hab. West Africa , from Sierra Leone to the Loango Coast. 



Collected at Bavia and Sofore Place. 



This Francolin is , like the former species , an inhabitant 

 of the forest region , where it is found occasionally scratch- 

 ing, like fowls, the ground in search for insects. We 

 have never found them in coveys together. 



Iris brown, bill dark horn-color, feet orange-yellow. 



Oedicnemus vermiculatus. 



Oedicnemus vermiculatus, Cab., v. d. Decken's Reisen , III. 

 p. 46, pi. 16; — F. & Hartl. Vog. 0. Afr. p. 622; — 

 Boo. Orn. d'Ang. p. 423. 



Hab. West Africa, from Liberia to the Cunene River; 

 Eastern Africa. 



Two specimens (males) were collected; one near the 

 Fisherman Lake, the other on a sand-bank before the 

 mouth of the Marfa River, on the 18tli of August. 



This species is closely allied to 0. crepitans, from 

 which it may easily be distinguished by its much longer 

 and stouter bill and the much larger shaft-streaks on the 

 interscapulary feathers. The vermiculations on the back are 

 very faintly marked in both our specimens, so that the 

 powerful! bill would have formed a much better ground 

 to base the name of the species upon. The specimen shot 

 in March near Buluma has the general color of its upper 

 parts rufous, the other, shot in August, is grayer, pro- 

 bably on account of its worn plumage , which has lost the 

 fulvous edges to the feathers. 



This species , the only one of the genus met with in Li- 

 beria , resorts especially to bare sandbanks , which are 

 plentiful before the nearly united mouths of the Grand 

 Cape Mount-, Marfa- and Sugary Rivers, and is only 

 found along the Fisherman Lake during the dry season , 

 when the water of this lake, sweet during the rains, be- 



^otes from the Leyden IMuseum, Vol. "VII. 



