Liberia <+- 



Totanns hypolciicus (Linn.) ; Biittik. Notes Leyd. Mus. viii. p. 266 

 (Junk River), x. p. 102 (Dukwia River), xi. p. 127 (Farmington 

 River). 

 Totauus \_Actitis\ hypoleucus^ Buttik. Reisebilder Liberia, ii. p. 429. 



Nos. 42, 45. c? ? adult, E. Liberia, March 13, 1905. 

 Tringa subarquata, Gould. 

 Crymophilus fulicarius. 



Crymophilus fulicarius (Linn.); Sharpe, Cat. B Brit Mus xxiv. 

 p. 693 (1896). 



No. 34. $ adult, E. Liberia (J. Maitland Pye-Smith), March 23, 

 1905. 



Tarsi and feet greenish grey. 



This appears to be the first record of this Red phalarope in Africa, 

 as there is no mention of it in Capt. Shelley's ftinis of Africa or 

 Dr. Reichenow's Vb'gel Afrikas. 



This species breeds within the Arctic circle of both the Old and 

 New Worlds, and migrates south in winter. A great number of 

 stragglers have been taken in England, chiefly during the autumn 

 migration, and captured most frequently in the southern counties. 

 In North America it ranges south to Pennsylvania on the east and 

 California on the west, and has been found on the western side of 

 South America as far south as Chile. It has also been found in 

 India, and even in New Zealand (cf. Butler, Birds of New Zealand, 

 ii. p. 30 [1888]). It is not surprising, therefore, that a bird which 

 lias such a wide range in its migration should be found in the 

 Ethiopian Region ; it is most interesting, however, to have discovered 

 it. The following is a description : 



The general appearance of the upper parts is slate-grey, some of 

 the scapulars are black margined and broadly tipped with grey, the 

 longer ones fringed with white, the shafts are black and reach almost 

 to the tips of the feathers, which gives a streaked appearance, lesser 

 wing-coverts dark slate-grey like the bastard wing, the longer feathers 

 of the latter arc tipped with white ; primary coverts blackish, the 

 inner ones fringed with white ; median coverts slate-colour with 

 narrow white edges ; greater coverts broadly tipped with white ; 

 primaries black with white shafts and white on the inner webs towards 

 the base ; secondaries white at base, blackish towards the tips and 

 fringed with white, the innermost feathers almost entirely white; 

 the long tertiaries feathers are black down the middle followed by 



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