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Pomatorh3mchus ussheri. 



Inliabits open scrubby bush and has a short pleasing song, 

 whicli is heard chiefly at sundown. 

 Bill black ; legs and feet bluish grey. 



Nicator chloris. 



Mendi name, " bialu." Only seen near Freetown on one 

 or two occasions, but common further inland. Has a very 

 noisy chattering song. Lives in dense bush and forest. 



Family Prionopid.t:. 

 Fraseria prosphora. 

 Found only in heavy forest. 



Family Sylviid.e. 

 Sylvia simplex. 

 Fairly common near Freetown during the dry season. 



Phylloscopus trochilus. 



Specimen No. 865 appears to be of this species. Free- 

 town, 28 Nov. 1912. 



Sylvietta hardyi. 



Sylviella hardyi Bannerman, Bull. B. O. C. xxix. 1911, 

 p. 23. 



Specimen No. 379 appears to belong to this species. 

 Freetown, 9 May, 1912. 



Sylvietta flaviventris. 



Lives chiefly in the tops of trees and seldom comes down 

 into the undergrowth. 



Camaroptera griseiviridis. 



A common species living in thick scrubby bush. The 

 call-note is " chip, chip, chip, chip," repeated ad lib. 



Major Webb, R.A.M.C., found malarial parasites in a 

 sample of the blood of one of these birds which I gave 

 him. 



Camaroptera chloronota. 



Specimen No. 641 appears to be referable to this species. 



