-•> Fauna : Birds 



brown, hoary grey at the tips and along the edges ; upper central 

 tail-coverts grey, the lateral ones almost entirely white ; tail feathers 

 grey, becoming grey towards their tips and fringed with whitish, 

 one of the middle feathers margined with rufous : both this and the 

 rufous brown on the tertiaries show an approach of the breeding 

 dress ; forehead, crown (nape grey), hind neck, sides of face, and 

 under-surface of body white, inclining to cream-colour on the breast ; 

 sides of breast and body grey, becoming streaked with grey and 

 white on the flanks ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white. 



Total length, 7-5 inches; wing, 5'i5 ; culmen, it; tail, 2-45; 

 tarsus, 0'8. 



Family Glareolid^ 

 Galactochrysea liberise. 



Glareola megapoda, Gray, nom. nud. ; Buttik. Notes Leyd. Mus. 

 vii. pp. 233, 256 (St. Paul's River, Fisherman Lake, Mafa 

 River) ; id. op. cit. x. p. 99 (Fisherman Lake) ; id. op. cit. xi. 

 pp. 127, 136 (Farmington River) ; id. Reisebilder Liberia, ii. 

 p. 427 cum fig. 

 G. nuclialis liberim, Schl. Notes Leyd. Mus. iii. p. 58 (1881 : 



Liberia). 

 Galaclochrysea libericz, Sharpe, Cat. B Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 63, 

 plate v. fig. I (1894); Chubb, P.Z.S. 1905, vol. i. p. 206 

 (St. Paul's River). 

 No. 4 Five males adult from Boporo, Feb. 16, 17, 1905. 

 Bill salmon-pink, dark at tip ; tarsi and feet salmon-pink. 

 No. 38. ? adult from E. Liberia. 

 G. marchei, Oust. 



This species was collected by Mr. R. P. Currie ; cf. Oberholser, 

 Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 25. 



Family CEdicnemid^ 

 (Edicnemus vermiculatus, Cab. 



Family CiCONIID/E 

 Dissura episcopus. 



Dissura episcopus (Bodd.); Sharpe, Cat. B Brit. Mus. xxvi. p. 294 

 (1898). 



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