26 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.xxii. 



Family EALLID^. 



SAROTHRURA PULCHRA (Gray). 



Crex pulchra J. E. Gray, in Griffith's ed. Cuvier, Anim. Kingd., Aves, pp. 410, 542. 

 Sarothrura pulchra Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. PMla., 1894, p. 148. 



One adult male of this i)retty rail is in the collection. Length, 177 

 ram.; expanse, 254.5 mm. "Bill dark horn or blackish, paler at base 

 beneath; feet black." 



Family PHASIANID^. 



FRANCOLINUS AHANTENSIS Temminck. 



Franoolinits ahantensis Temminck, Bijdr. tot de Dierk., I, 1854, p. 49, pi. 14. 

 One adult female. Length, 353 mm.; expanse, 534 mm. The Eng- 

 lish name of the species is "Guinea fowl" in Liberia; in the Golah 

 dialect it is " Ohine-chilo." 



Family FALOOI^ID^. 



DRYOTRIORCHIS SPECTABILIS (Schlegel). 



AstuT spectabilis Schlegel, Nederl. Ti.idschr., I, 1864, p. 13, pi. 6. 

 Dryotriorchis apectabilis Sharpe,i Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., I, 1874, p. 279. 



One fine adult example of this rare hawk is in the collection. The 

 entire upper surface, excej)ting the tail and the wing quills, has a dis- 

 tinct slaty cast; otherwise this individual agrees j)erfectly with pub- 

 lished descriptions. Length, 546 mm.; expanse, 953 mm. It was shot 

 in the forest, and was in the act of swallowing a green snake, part of 

 which was subsequently found in its throat. Mr. Currie states that it 

 was very tame and unsuspicious. Golah name of the species, "See- 

 pwah." 



The specimen obtained by Mr, Ourrie is apparently the ninth of which 

 any record has been published. All of these have come from a 

 restricted area on the western coast of Africa extending only from 

 Liberia to Gaboon. A list of those previously recorded is here added: 



1. One specimen from Elmina, Gold Coast. Schlegel, Nederl. Tijdschr., 1, 1864, p. 13, 



pi. 6. 



2. One adnlt, from the interior of Fantee. Shelley, Ibis, 1874, p. 90. 



3. One young, from Gaboon. Gurney, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1880, p. 621. 



4. One adult female, from the Du Queah Eiver, Liberia. Blittikofer, Notes Leyden 



Mus., VIII, 1886, p. 246. 



5. One adult male, from Schieffelinsville, Liberia. Biittikofer, Notes Leyden Mus., 



X, 1888, p. 65. 



6. One specimen, from Barombi, Cameroons. Reichenow, Journ. f. Orn., 1895, p. 102. 



7. One, from Sebbe, Togo, alive in the Berlin Zoological Garden. Ornith. Monats- 



berichte, II, 1894, p. 128; Reichenow, Journ. f. Orn., 1895, p. 102. 



8. One female, from Victoria, Cameroons. Reichenow, Journ. f. Orn., 1896, p. 7. 



'The authority for this combination is usually quoted as Shelley, Ibis, 1874, p. 90, 

 but Dr. Sharpe (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., I, 1874, p. 279), seems to have been the first 

 actually to write Dryotriorchis spectabilis. 



