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River is a little Waxbill or Weaver-bird (Sporcegintkus mel- 

 podus), about which Mr. Reynolds makes a curious statement. 

 He remarks that this is a very pugnacious and spiteful little bird, 

 which does not hesitate in small flocks to attack and kill small 

 snakes and lizards. The birds endeavour to pick out the eyes of the 

 creature they are attacking and then to tear off its flesh in small 

 pieces. They carry these fragments to their nests, and whilst 

 they are rotting flies settle on them. These flies form the food, 

 or an addition to the food, of the nestlings. 



I append to this paper lists of the mammals and birds collected 

 recently in Liberia by Mr. Alexander Whyte, Lt.-Col. Powney, 

 Mr. Maitland Pye-Smith, and Mr. Harold Reynolds. 



Appendix I. 



List of Mammals collected in Liberia in 1903-4 by Mr. Alexander 

 "Whyte, Lt.-Gol. Powney, Mr. Maitland Pye-Smith, and 

 others. 



Anthropopithecus troglodytes. 

 Colohus ursimis. 



,, ferriigineus. 

 CercopithecKjS biittikoferi. 



,, diana biittikoferi. 



,, diana ignita. 



Felis serval. 



,, celidogaster. 

 Viverra civetta. 

 Grossarchus ohscurus. 

 Nandinia hinotata. 

 Lutra niaculicollis. 

 Graphiurus hueti. 

 Anoinalurus heecrofti. 

 Cephalophus niger. 



,, maxwelli. 



,, dor ice. 



Buhalis Tiiajor. 

 Hipjjopota'mus liheriensis. 



Appendix II. 



List of Birds collected in Liberia by Mr. Hai-old Reynolds. 

 By Charles Chubb, Zoological Department, British Museum. 



(Mr. Reynolds' notes are placed in square brackets.) 



References are given to the following papers and works which 

 treat of the Ornithology of Liberia : — 



(1) BuTTiKOFER, J. — Zoological Researches in Liberia. A List of 

 Birds, collected by J. Biittikofer and C. F. Sala in Western 

 Liberia, with bidlogical observations. Notes from the 

 Leyden Museum, vii." pp. 129-256 (1885). 



