Recently published Ornithological Works. 721 



illustrated volumes gives us an account of all that is known 

 about Liberia — a " civilized Negro State in the West African 

 forest," in which he has lately become interested and to 

 which he has paid several visits. 



The first volume is devoted to the ancient and modern 

 history of the Republic, together with essays on its commerce, 

 geography, geology, and climate, the only thing which we 

 can see in it relating to birds being a pretty coloured picture 

 of the Red-headed Guinea-fowl [Agelaates meleagrides) , 

 p. 370. Sir Harry's second volume, however, is nearly 

 entirely devoted to Natural History and Anthropology, 

 and contains a special chapter on "Birds," to which we 

 must call attention. After reviewing the principal groups 

 of the Liberian Avifauna, in which many characteristic 

 figures from the author-and- artist's own sketches are intro- 

 duced {Phyllopezus ufricanus, Lepterodius gularis, Ceruto- 

 gijmna elata, &c.), besides coloured plates of Ceryle maxima, 

 Ortholophus leucolophus, Ceratogxjmna atrata, and Eurij- 

 stomus afer, the author adds, in an Appendix, a complete list 

 of the birds observed or collected in Liberia and noticed 

 by various authorities on the subject, amongst whom 

 Dr. Biittikofer is the most important. This list, which 

 has been prepared for Sir Harry by Mr. Charles Chubb, 

 of the Zoological Department, British Museum, is of con- 

 siderable length, embracing the names of some 260 species, 

 and will be of much use to ornithologists. At the same 

 time we may say that it would have been of still greater use 

 if the authority for the occurrence of the species in Liberia 

 had been given after each name. This has only been done 

 in some cases, mainly where the specimens were collected by 

 Mr. Reynolds, and have been named in Mr. Chubb's previous 

 list published in the P. Z. S. for 1905 (i. p. 205). 



Sir Harry tells us (p. 777) that the typical Psittacus 

 erithacus with a red tail does not occur in Liberia, its place 

 being taken by P. timneh with a grey tail *. An example of 

 the Grey Phalarope (P/talaropus fulicarius) was obtained in 



* Cf. Johnston in P. Z. S. 1905, i. p. 204. 



