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on a grassy plain, interspersed with some shallow pools. 

 Iris crimson , bill and bare skin of the face black , base 

 of culmen crimson , feet blackish red. 



Ibis olivacea. 



Ibis olivaceus, Du Bus, Bull. Acad. Brux. 1837, p. 103. 



Comatibis oUvaceus , Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 231. 



Ibis olivacea, Rchw. J. f. 0. 1874, p. 378. 



Hab. West Africa, from Liberia to the Cameroons. 



Collected at Bavia and Soforé Place, St. Paul's River. 



Like the above mentioned species, this Ibis lives in 

 small families together. They had a regular sleeping-place 

 in very high trees about half a mile above our hunting 

 statioQ at Bavia, on the banks of the St. Paul's. Every 

 evening, shortly after sunset, they came past our station 

 from down the river, making a most horrible noise, 

 consisting of long, training notes, something like »wah- 

 wah, wah-wah." 



Iris grayish brown , bill coral-red , bare skin of the face 

 blackish blue , feet greenish flesh-color. 



JSfu menius phaeopus. 



Numenius phaeopus (L.) , Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 232 ; — 

 Schl. Mus. P.-B., Scolopaces, p. 93. 



Numenius haesitatus , Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 233. 



Hab. The most parts of the old world; whole of Africa. 



Collected near the Fisherman Lake and the Marfa River. 



Very common throughout the year on the banks of ri- 

 vers and lakes , especially near the mouths of rivers , where 

 large sand-banks are regularly formed. There is no diffe- 

 rence at all between the summer- and winter-plumage. 



Iris black , bill brown , lower mandible whitish at the 

 base, feet lead-color. 



Notes from the Leyden Museuxn, Vol. "VII. 



