652 REPORT OF THE HARVARD AFRICAN EXPEDITION 
trees along the banks, coming in shortly after sunset, often making a ‘most 
horrible noise, consisting of long, training notes something like ‘wah-wah, wah- 
wah’.’’ Apparently the species is to be found, much of the year, at least, in 
small flocks up to a dozen individuals. This is the ibis called olivacea by Bitti- 
kofer and it may eventually prove to be a race of that species. 
PHOENICOPTERIDAE Flamingos 
Phoenicopterus ruber antiquorum Temminck. Greater Flamingo 
Phoenicopterus antiquorum Temminck, Man. d’Ornith., ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 587, 1820: Europe. 
Length 45 inches, white with a rosy suffusion, wing feathers black; bill pink at base, black at 
tip; the long legs rose red; feet webbed. 
Biittikofer (1885, p. 246) records that one was shot at Robertport by an 
American missionary, Bishop Penick, who unfortunately did not preserve it, 
so that its specific identity cannot be fully established. It is a straggler from out- 
side the forest area, and no doubt occasionally visits the country, for Sir Harry 
Johnston (1906) mentions that a Mr. Braham informed him that it sometimes 
visits Fisherman Lake in numbers. 
ANSERIFORMES 
ANATIDAE Ducks 
Pteronetta hartlaubii (Cassin). Hartlaub’s Duck 
Querquedula hartlaubii Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1859, p. 175: Camma River, 
Gaboon, West Africa. 
Length 22 inches; chestnut, with blue wings, black head and neck, and white crown, not 
sharply defined; sexes alike. 
This is a forest-dwelling species, confined to the West African forest area. In 
Liberia it is uncommon and perhaps here and in Sierra Leone at the northwestern 
limit of its range. Biittikofer found it only in a forest of high mangroves and 
other trees at the head of the Junk River, near Old Field. Here he frequently 
saw two or more birds perched on overhanging branches and once a pair swim- 
ming. His associate, Stampfli, on a second journey secured a bird at the same 
place, while more recently, Chubb has recorded a male from eastern Liberia. 
In all our journey across Liberia and back we met with the species but once. 
This was on a small creek running into the Junk River, where amid beautiful 
forest growth partly inundated during the rains, we nearly ran down a bird 
swimming ahead of the launch July 18. When the boat was stopped the bird 
arose and settled a short distance away when one of the party shot at it ineffectu- 
ally. Instead of departing at once it flew about fifty yards and again alighted. 
A second shot finally alarmed it sufficiently to send it off beyond a turn of the 
stream and it was not seen again. We were told that the bird had been seen at 
the same place several times previously. It is therefore interesting to notice 
both the very localized habitat and the unsuspicious behavior of the bird, the 
latter trait in contrast to its wildness in the Congo, where according to Chapin, 
it may be exceedingly wary. 
