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mens, we never heard a note from the bird. Biittikofer mentions its occasional 
association with small birds of other species, moving through the trees more or 
less in company, in search of insects. It is interesting, too, that this species which 
may be regarded as more primitive than other African species of the genus 1n 
the relatively slight tail development, should be the typical form of this western 
forest area, the home of sundry other primitive types. 
Pholidornis rushiae ussheri Reichenow. Yellow-bellied Tit 
Pholidornis ussheri Reichenow, Vogel Afrikas, vol. 3, pt. 2, p. 529, 1905: Gold Coast. 
Size of a kinglet; head, chin, and throat finely streaked with dark brown on a whitish ground; 
upper back, wings, and tail dark brown, the feathers edged with olive brown; rump, belly, and 
under tail-coverts bright olive yellow; fect and base of lower mandible light yellow. Gold Coast to 
Gaboon. 
The finer streaking of the throat is obvious in these birds as compared with 
a Cameroons specimen, so that the name proposed by Reichenow provisionally 
for Gold Coast birds may be regarded as valid with subspecific status. Of this 
very small species, there is apparently no previous record for Liberia. The two 
that we secured on the Du River, August 14, 1926, were a mated pair, with a 
newly started nest about twenty feet from the ground in some long dead vines, 
depending from a tree at the edge of aclearing. The female bird had a bit of soft 
shredded bark in her beak. We saw no others, but its small size might easily 
render it inconspicuous. 
Fraseria cinerascens Hartlaub. Blue-gray Flycatcher 
Fraseria cinerascens Hartlaub, Syst. Ornith. West Afr., p. 102, 1857: Ashanti. 
A small species, 6.5 inches long; above slaty blue, darker on forehead, the wings blacker, 
upper breast dark gray; under wing-coverts, under tail-coverts, and a spot in front of eye, white; 
chin, throat, and abdomen white with gray edges to the feathers. Gold Coast to Gaboon. 
This is a bird confined to a special type of locality, namely, the shaded under 
story of small trees and bushes at the edges of river banks. We saw them in 
pairs in such situations several times. The female of a pair obtained at Gbanga, 
September 8, had a double ovary, the left portion being about half the size of 
the right. These birds keep closely associated in pairs, flitting from perch to 
perch near the water’s edge, or sometimes alighting momentarily on a fallen 
trunk. They seemed to prefer quiet inlets from the main stream, bordered with 
trees. In one such place at Gbanga, I shot a pair, and a few days later another 
pair had taken its place by the same pool. They seem to be very silent birds. 
Fraseria ocreata prosphora Oberholser 
Fraseria prosphora Oberholser, Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 22, p. 37, 1899: Mount Coffee, Liberia. 
A small flycatcher, about 6.5 inches; uniform slate color above, slightly more bluish on lower 
back; wing- and tail-quills brownish black, edged with slate; below grayish white; sides slate 
gray, feathers of breast and abdomen with narrow slate-gray tips, giving a slightly scaled effect; 
under tail-coverts white barred with slate. Liberia. 
This seems to be a rare or inconspicuous bird, for we did not meet with it, 
and Biittikofer (under F’. ocreata) has but one record of it, namely, of a female 
