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Although Biittikofer seems to have taken comparatively few of these birds, 
we found it the commonest and best distributed of the small barbets. It fre- 
quents the low growth of thickets or small trees, as well as the lower stories of the 
forest, but often in such dense places that it is difficult to see although its pecu- 
liar little song of a number of low wut-wul-wut notes may be heard. <A similar 
song with a clearer note, and a very insect-like quality, often heard but never 
located, I attributed to the same or an allied species. 
Trachylaemus goffini goffini (Schlegel). Goffin’s Barbet 
Capito goffinit Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Buccones, p. 72, 1863: Gold Coast. 
Length about 10.25 inches; neck feathers bristly, black; forehead, and a broad eyebrow band, 
extending to neck, dull red; fore neck with a narrow, bright band of carmine; body, wings, and 
tail black, the wing-feathers with white inner edges; breast and middle of belly sulphur yellow, 
flanks black and yellow; bill deep chrome, eyes crimson. Sierra Leone to Gold Coast Colony. 
We did not see this barbet, but Bittikofer speaks of finding it in pairs in 
“brushwood”’ of old plantations and says its call-note is a deep hoop. He took 
specimens at Soforé Place, Schieffelinsville, Hill Town, and Mt. Gallilee, while 
more recently Lowe obtained it at Nana Kru on the southern coast. 
INDICATORIDAE Honey-guides 
Indicator feae feae Salvadori. Fea’s Honey-guide 
Indicator feae Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, ser. 2, vol. 20, p. 783, 1901: Farim, 
Portuguese Guinea. 
Length about 7.5 inches, toes in pairs, two pointing forward, two back; throat white, breast 
darker with yellowish wash, rest of under parts whitish, washed with yellow, the flanks streaked 
with gray; outer tail-feathers white or with brown tips; naked eye-ring bright blue. Portuguese 
Guinea and Liberia. 
Notwithstanding that bees seem plentiful in Liberia, the Honey-guides are 
certainly rare, and in general are probably birds of less densely wooded country. 
Biittikofer in all his field experience secured only two, the first an adult female 
at Soforé Place, the second, also a female, at Hill Town. These are recorded as 
I. variegatus, but this is now regarded as not belonging to the West African fauna 
so the specimens were presumably J. feae, more recently distinguished. Banner- 
man (1912) records J. exilis from Sierra Leone, probably to be identified with the 
subspecies leona, so that it may eventually be found in Liberia. 
PICIDAE Woodpeckers 
Campethera maculosa maculosa (Valenciennes). Golden-backed Woodpecker 
Picus maculosus Valenciennes, Dict. des Sci. Nat., vol. 40, p. 173, 1826: Senegal. 
A small woodpecker about 7 inches long; golden brown above, except tail which is black, and 
top of head which is red in the male, black with small buffy spots in female, cheeks and throat buffy 
with small black spots; rest of under surface of body pale yellow with transverse black bars. 
Senegal to Liberia and Gold Coast. 
Woodpeckers are not common in Liberia, but one comes upon a pair or a 
single bird here and there, seldom more than one or two ina day. Of this small, 
