NO. 1182. BIBDS COLLECTED IN LIBERIA— OBEBSOLSER. 37 



toward the tip; feet vermilion; naked ring- around eye orange red." 

 Known to English-speaking Liberians as "Baboon bird;" Golah name, 

 "Way-ye." 



FRASERIA PROSPHORA, new species. 



Chars, sp. — Similar to Fraseria ochreata; the crown, sides of head, 

 and neck not blackish, but uniform in color with the back; lower sur- 

 face not pure white, the markings not sharply defined. 



Description. — Adult, sex undetermined, No. 161784, U.S.N.M. ; Mount 

 Coffee, Liberia. February 19, 1897; E. P. Currie. Upper surface uni- 

 form slate color, slightly more bluish on lower back and rump; wing- 

 quills and tail-feathers dull brownish black, edged externally with 

 slate color; sides of head and neck like the crown. Lower parts 

 grayish white; the sides and flanks slate gray; the jugulum a lighter 

 shade of same, spotted with darker; the feathers of breast and abdo- 

 men with narrow slate-gray tips, producing a slightly squamated 

 effect; lower tail-coverts each with a subbasal, V-shaped marking, 

 and a narrow terminal bar of slate color; inferior wing-coverts brown- 

 ish slate, the feathers broadly tipped with white; axillars white ter- 

 minally, slate gray basally; thighs slate gray, edged with white. 

 "Bill slate black; feet plumbeous." Wing, 87.5 mm.; tail, 73 mm.; 

 exposed culmen, 14 mm.; tarsus, 21.5 mm.; middle toe, 14 mm. 



This new form is distinguishable at sight from Fraseria ochreata by 

 the lighter and uniform shade of the upper surface, including the sides 

 of head and neck; by the grayish instead of pure white under parts, 

 the markings of which are much paler and much less sharply defined, 

 giving a clouded and mottled appearance in place of a clear-cut 

 squamate effect, particularly on breast and jugulum. The crissum is 

 irregularly barred with slate color instead of being pure white. While 

 it is barely possible that prosphora is a race of ochreata, and thus its 

 representative in Liberia, yet the two birds are so different that until 

 the connection be established it seems better to accord them both 

 specific rank. 



