A LIST OF THE BIRDS COLLECTED BY ME. E. P. CUREIE 



m LIBEEIA. 



By Harry C. Oberholser, 



Assistant Biologist, Department of Agriculture. 



Althougli Mr. Carrie's trip to Liberia, under the auspices of the 

 United States National Museum, was largely devoted to the collecting 

 of insects, he nevertheless managed during his sojourn in that country, 

 from February 1 until May 10, 1897, to obtain a small series of birds. 

 These siDecimens, 57 in number, were referred to the writer for deter- 

 mination and report. They prove to represent 39 forms, 4 of which 

 are here described as new, while another, Dryotriorchis spectaMlis, is 

 sufficiently rare to be worthy of special mention. All the matter 

 between quotation marks, together with the data relating to length, 

 extent, colors of the unfeathered parts, as well as the Liberian, or 

 English, and Golah, or native, names are from Mr. Currie's notes. The 

 writer is also in debted to him for information respecting the locality at 

 which the birds were secured. 



Mount Coffee, where Mr. Currie's collecting was done, is one of the 

 numerous low hills along the St. Paul Eiver, about 25 miles from 

 Monrovia. The land, which begins to rise near the coast, attains in 

 the vicinity of Mount Coffee an altitude of from 400 to 500 feet. The 

 greater portion of the region is covered with heavy tropical forest, 

 interrupted here and there by small clearings. The undergrowth in 

 the forest is not particularly heavy, but abandoned rice fields are, 

 under the influence of the hot, moist climate, rapidly converted into 

 impenetrable thickets. The river, here about 100 yards in width, flows 

 with considerable current over an exceedingly rocky bed and receives 

 the tribute of numerous minor streams. These latter, particularly 

 when they run through the forest, are, like the clearings, favorite 

 resorts for birds. 



Family CUESORIID.^. 



GALACHRYSIA MARCHEI (Oustalet). 



Glareola marchei Oustalet, Bull. Soc. Philom., I, 1877, p. 104. 

 Galactochrysea marcMi Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXIV, 1896, p. 726. 



Two adult males and an immature female, all taken along the St. 

 Paul Eiver. The two adults measure, respectively : Length, 180.6, 185.6 

 mm. ; expanse, 450, 465.5 mm. 



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