196 Major H. J. Kelsall on 



general and whether the different tribes each have some 

 particular bird with regard to which they are superstitious. 



A sketch-map (Plate X.) is given showing the area 

 collected over. The positions of the towns and rivers are 

 only approximately correct as there is no accurate survey 

 of the country. 



The nomenclature is that of Reichenow's ' Vogel Afrikas/ 

 the classification that of Sharpens Hand-list reversed, i. e. 

 with the *' highest forms " first. 



Field Notes. 



Family Corvid^. 



Corvus scapulatns. 



Widely distributed, but not usually plentiful. Generally 

 seen in pairs or singly, and sometimes three or four together. 

 On one occasion, about twenty miles north of Bo, I saw a 

 flock of fifteen or sixteen. 



Picathartes gymnocephalus. 



The only specimen in my collection was obtained by 

 Mr. Guy Aylmer, Assist. Conservator of Forests, in the 

 mountain-forest about twenty miles south of Freetown. It 

 does not appear to have been previously recorded from 

 farther north than the Gold (^loast. Mr. Aylmer told me 

 that his men did not seem to know it. 



Family Dicrurid^. 



Dicrnrus atrip ennis. 



A forest dweller. Mendi name, *^ jakoi/^ probably onoma- 

 topoeic, as it resembles one of the commonest notes of the 

 bird. 



Dicrurus assimilis atactus. 



Dicrurus afer A. Licht. ; Reichenow, Vog. Afr. ii, 1903, 

 p. 646. 



Dicrurus assimilis atactus Oberh. ; Bannerman, Ibis, 1912, 

 p. 230. 



A forest dweller. Is a somewhat noisy bird and has 

 jsome good notes. 



