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of Monrovia and given tous. It is probably rare so far to the westward and is 
not included in Kemp’s list of Sierra Leone birds seen by him, though Thompson 
(1925) records that he several times saw it in the Karina district and shot one, 
January 9, at Mabanta in that country. 
Clamator glandarius (Linné). Great Spotted Cuckoo 
Cuculus glandarius Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 111, 1758: North Africa and Europe. 
Length about 17 inches, tail long; top of head to eyes pale gray, bordered by dark brown; 
nape, back, tail and wings dark brown, the feathers of shoulders and wings tipped with white; 
throat buffy, rest of under parts white; tail-feathers tipped with white. Southern Europe to 
western Asia. . 
This is another winter visitor, breeding from Spain to Persia and wintering 
throughout Africa. There is but a single record, that of an immature female 
taken by Lowe, December 3, 1910, at Nifu on the Kru coast of Liberia (Banner- 
man, 1912, p. 243). 
Clamator cafer (Lichtenstein). Levaillant’s Cuckoo 
Cuculus cafer A. Lichtenstein, Cat. Rer. Rar. Hamburg, p. 14, 1793: Kaffirland. 
Length about 16.5 inches; head, neck, upper side of body, wings, and tail black with greenish 
reflections; tips of tail-feathers and ends of primaries white; fore neck whitish streaked with black; 
below white, more or less washed with yellowish, sides streaked; bill black, feet blue-gray. Africa 
south of the Sahara, wintering in South Africa. 
This may be a commoner resident species than our experience led us to sup- 
pose, for Bittikofer (1885, p. 225) reported it as common, preferring brushwood 
and the edges of high forest near rivers. He collected specimens at Bavia on the 
St. Paul’s River, and secured young birds in January and March. Chubb (1905) 
also records a specimen sent him from Boporo, on the same river, taken January 
10, 1905. Possibly it is local in its distribution, for we saw nothing of it. 
Chrysococcyx cupreus cupreus (Shaw). Yellow-bellied Emerald Cuckoo 
Cuculus cupreus Shaw, Mus. Leverianum, p. 157, 1792: Gambia. 
Small, about 9 inches. Male with the head, throat and upper parts bright metallic green, the 
feathers appearing scale-like; belly bright yellow. Tail proportionally long, the outer feathers 
shortest, with alternating white and green bars. The female has the back barred with brown and 
green. Africa from the Zambesi to Abyssinia and Sierra Leone. 
Bannerman (1922) has shown that the names of the Golden and Emerald 
Cuckoos have been much confused. His record of a male of the present species 
taken by Lowe at Nana Kru, January 7, 1911, is the only one for Liberia. 
Lampromorpha caprius (Boddaert) Didric Cuckoo; White-bellied Golden Cuckoo 
Cuculus caprius Boddaert, Tabl. des Pl. Enlum., p. 4, 1783: Cape of Good Hope. 
Length about 7 inches. Male: above dark green with yellow, bronze and blue reflections 
wings dusky with white cross-bars. Outer tail-feathers with squarish white spots on both webs, 
those of the outer webs alternating with those of the inner. Below, white tinged with rusty the 
sides of the abdomen with greenish-brown cross-bars. Iris and eye-ring scarlet. Africa generally. 
