THE BIRDS OF LIBERIA 703 
The only record is that of Biittikofer who shot two adult males at Robert- 
port. Kemp (1905), however, reports it from Sierra Leone, and it may be com- 
moner than the evidence indicates. He says its eyelids are cobalt blue. 
Diaphorophyia hormophora Reichenow. White-necked Wattled Flycatcher 
Diaphorophyia hormophora Reichenow, Journ. f. Orn., vol. 49, p. 285, 1901: Angola. 
Small, 4 inches; short-tailed, both sexes with black crown, back, wings, tail, and chest-band, 
elsewhere white on throat, neck-ring, belly, rump, and edges of remiges. Eye lappet blackish; 
iris red. Liberia to Togo. 
An adult male, secured August 7, 1926, on the Du by Dr. Linder, is the only 
record for this bird in Liberia. It was taken in a bushy place near the river, ap- 
parently in much the same sort of cover as D. castanea. 
Artomyias ussheri Sharpe. Brown Flycatcher 
Artomytas usshert Sharpe, Ibis, ser. 3, vol. 1, p. 416, 1871: Fanti. 
Size of a sparrow, 5 inches long; nearly uniform blackish brown all over, except the throat 
which is paler and the under tail-coverts which are white-edged. Liberia to Gold Coast. 
This somber little flycatcher has much the appearance of a small immature 
bluebird, on account of its large eyes and rounded forehead. It is uncommon, 
though we several times saw it. The first seen were a group of three, probably 
adult and young, actively catching insects in the late afternoon. Their perch 
was a tall dead tree by the Du River, that stood in the midst of a clearing sur- 
rounded by forest. Each bird selected as its perch one of the dead stubs of 
branches at perhaps fifty feet from the ground, whence it would fly out snapping 
up an insect and returning again to its station. Although Whitman secured 
another specimen at Monrovia on November 17, the only other one I saw was 
taken at Moala, on the 2d of the same month. It was flycatching in the same 
way as the others but from a low dead stub projecting from a thicket near cleared 
ground. Its mouth was blackish inside. The first specimen taken in late July 
was beginning to acquire fresh plumage, the blackish feathers of which contrasted 
sharply with the older faded brown portions. Bittikofer records but a single 
specimen, at Soforé Place on the St. Paul’s River, and Oberholser reports two 
from Mount Coffee, on the same stream. It is a bird of open areas with a supply 
of dead standing timber. 
Tchitrea nigriceps nigriceps (Hartlaub). Black-headed Paradise Flycatcher 
Muscipeta nigriceps Hartlaub, Journ. f. Orn., vol. 3, pp. 355, 361, 1855: “Guinea.” 
A slender, medium-sized bird about 7 inches, with the central pair of tail-feathers slightly 
elongated in the male. Head and throat black with bluish reflections; primaries and secondaries 
black, the latter edged with orange rufous, which is the color of the rest of the plumage; feet pale 
lead blue; bill and eye-lids sky blue. Sierra Leone to Gold Coast. 
This beautiful flycatcher is not uncommon in the dense undergrowth of high 
forest or in the thickets under or bordering second-growth trees, a bird therefore 
of shaded places, usually preferring low perches from three to ten or fifteen 
feet from the ground. Although we saw a good many and secured several speci- 
