THE BIRDS OF LIBERIA 705 
with nest and three eggs taken by Stampfli, at Schieffelinsville, Junk River, in 
high forest. The nest was made of fine roots and leaves. Oberholser bases 
this form on a specimen collected by Currie at Mount Coffee. 
Trochocercus nitens reichenowi Sharpe. Slaty-blue Flycatcher 
Trochocercus reichenowi Sharpe, Ibis, ser. 8, vol. 4, p. 630, 1904: Fanti. 
Size of a warbler, 6 inches long; slaty blue all over except the wings which are brownish; 
tail proportionally long, its outermost feathers shortest. Sierra Leone to Fanti. 
With its long, graduated tail, its habit of spreading and erecting it slightly, 
and its somber plumage, this little flycatcher reminds one of a very small catbird. 
One was secured at Paiata and one or two others were seen on the edges of 
clearings among dense growth. Biittikofer mentions three in low forest at Hill 
Town, and an adult at Owen’s Grove; while both Kemp and Thompson record 
it from Sierra Leone. 
Pedilorhynchus comitatus (Cassin). White-throated Flycatcher 
Butalis comitatus Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1857, p. 35: Muni River, West 
Africa. 
Size of a sparrow, 5 inches; chin, upper throat, and the belly white; breast and sides blue- 
gray. Head and back blue-gray, wings and tail brownish black. An indistinct whitish line before 
the eye. Gold Coast to Gaboon. 
At Bonuta we secured a single specimen, seen in late afternoon, perched on 
the tip of a vine in the shade of tall trees. It was silent and rather inactive. A 
specimen brought in at Gbanga was too damaged to preserve. It is no doubt a 
thicket-dweller, and has not previously been recorded from Liberia. It is pos- 
sibly closely related to P. stuhlmanni. 
Bias musicus (Vieillot) 
Platyrhynchos musicus Vieillot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., vol. 27, p. 15, 1818: Malimba, French 
Congo. 
Length 6 inches; black with greenish reflections; lower side of body, under tail-coverts, and a 
broad band across the wing-feathers white; rump with concealed white spots; flank feathers with 
blackish-gray tips. Female, reddish brown. Liberia to Uganda. 
Although Buttikofer found this ‘‘tolerably common in brushwood”’ and 
plantations at Robertport and Cape Mount, and Lowe found it ‘“‘a striking 
bird, tolerably common on the Kru coast”? but more plentiful in Sierra Leone, 
we failed to see it. Possibly it is commoner along the coast. 
Megabias atrialatus (Cassin) 
Dryoscopus atrialatus Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 5, p. 246, 1851: ‘“‘? Eastern 
Africa.” 
Length about 6.5 inches; above black with steely sheen, rump feathers with white tips; upper 
tail-coverts and entire under side white; iris red, bill black. Female reddish brown, streaked with 
brown below. Liberia to Congo and the Lakes. 
The only record is of an adult male taken by Bittikofer (1890, p. 204), near 
Robertport ‘‘in brushwood.”’ He says the feet are dark red, the iris red. 
