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to unite it M'itli H. leucosoma Swains. In the Natural 

 History ]Museum there are six specimens from the Gokl 

 Coastj all of which have the gloss on the feathers of a 

 bluish tinge, whereas the gloss on the present example is 

 decidedly green. Nothing is so deceptive as the sheen on 

 the feathers in birds with a glossy plumage, and it has been 

 often poiuted out that the colour may change from various 

 causes ; but H. leucosoma has the throat ivhite, whereas in the 

 bird with the green gloss it is strongly washed with rufous 

 which reaches on to the breast. Hence, when a large series 

 is procured it may prove to be separable, and both the rufous 

 on the throat and the green sheen on the upper parts to be 

 constant characters. 



PSALIDOPROCNE OBSCURA (Tcmm.). 



Psalidoprocne obscura Reich, ii. p. 427. 

 a-c. i ?. Sekondi. 22nd & 23rd Dec, 1911. (Nos. 

 136, 146, 147.) 



d. $ . Nanna Kru. 10th Jan., 1911. (No. 291.) 



e. $ . Sierra Leone. 31st Jan., 1911. (No. 441). 

 Iris dark brown ; bill and feet black. 



Total length in the flesh 4| inches; expanse of wings 

 10 inches. 



Hitherto unrecorded from Liberia. 



Campothera maculosa (Valenc). 



Dendromus maculosus Reich, ii. p. 170. 



a.S' Sierra Leone. 10th March, 1911. (No. 604.) 



Iris brown ; upper mandible black, lower mandible bluish ; 

 feet greenish. 



Total length in the flesh 8 j inches ; expanse 13 inches. 



[I found Woodpeckers scarce on the Liberian coast, and 

 observed only two species. This form seemed quite local 

 and was found in a small forest clearing, where a number 

 of dead trees were standing, about three or four miles from 

 the coast.—W. P. L.] 



Mesopicus pceocephalus (Swains.). 



Mesopicus goertcB poiceplialus Reich, ii. p. 186. 



«. ?imm. Sierra Leone. 10th March, 1911. (No. 589.) 



