<+> Fauna : Birds 



all of them discovered by Biittikofer. But in common with 

 the rest of forested West Africa the Guinea Coast especially, 

 from Senegambia to the Cameroons Liberia presents in its 

 avi-fauna, as in its " Miocene " mammalia, affinities with the 

 regions of Eastern Asia (Burma, Malay Peninsula and Archi- 

 pelago). This is due, no doubt, to the survival of forest- 



305. THE BLACK AND WHITE CROW (CORVUS SCAPULATUS) 



haunting forms in this part of West Africa which have become 

 extinct in the deforested regions separating Central Africa 

 from Indo-China. Many of these Liberian and West African 

 types are continued in their distribution right across Africa 

 to the territories north of the Victoria Nyanza (Uganda 

 Protectorate). 



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