200 Major H. J. Kelsall on 



Family Fringillid^. 



Serinus hartlaul)!. 



This is a very common cage-bird iu Freetown, though I 

 only once obtained wild specimens. 



Family Motacillid^. 



Anthus leucophrys sordidus. 



Very common about Freetown in the open grassy plains. 

 Its habits are similar to those of the English Meadow- 

 Pipit. 



Macronyx croceus. 



Found in open grassy plains. It has a habit of rising 

 some feet in the air and hovering like a Sky-Lark. It 

 has several pleasant notes, which it sings when perched on 

 a wall or rock, or when flying. 



Motacilla flava. 



Common in the dry season, from October to April. 



Motacilla vidua. 



During the first week in October 1912 there were a 

 number of these birds about, and 1 saw them occasionally at 

 other times. 



Family NECTARiNiiDiE. 



Cinnyris splendidus. 



I think this species must be, to some extent, migratory, 

 as it was more plentifnl from April till about August than 

 during the remainder of the year. 



The nest is an oval structure about five inches long, 

 composed of fine grass with the entrance at one side, 

 sheltered by an overhanging eave. One I found suspended 

 from a branch of a locust tree, about fifteen feet from the 

 ground ; another was hanging from the end of a short piece 

 of creeper under the verandah of a native hut. 



In Bannerman's paper on the Willoughby Lowe collection 

 from West Africa (^Ibis,' 1912, p. 225), Chalcomitra acik 

 (Antin.) is recorded as occurring in Sierra Leone and 



