THE BIRDS OF LIBERIA 707 
Lowe found it at Nana Kru (Bannerman, 1912), while Chubb (1905) adds 
another record from St. Paul’s River. It is a bird of the forest undergrowth. 
It will probably prove to be a race of C. calurus. 
Criniger barbatus (Temminck) 
Trichophorus barbatus Temminck, Pl. Col., pt. 15, pl. 88, 1821: Sierra Leone. 
Length 9 inches; crown greenish gray, body olive green, tail olive brown to rusty, sides of 
of head white-streaked; throat pale yellow, breast gray, belly olive green, under tail-coverts yel- 
lowish. Gambia to Niger. 
Like the preceding, a rare bird. Biittikofer’s records are: Soforé Place in high 
forest and brushwood; Schieffelinsville, a male, Hill Town, Jarjee, and Johnny 
Creek. We did not meet with it. 
Stelgidillas gracilirostris liberiensis (Reichenow) 
Andropadus gracilirostris liberiensis Reichenow, Novit. Zool., vol. 2, p. 160, 1895: Liberia. 
Size of a thrush; above olive green, forehead and cheeks grayer; tail darker olive brown than 
the back, the feathers edged with olive green, wing-feathers with inner edges ochraceous; below, 
the chin is white, throat and belly grayish faintly tinged with pale yellow, under wing-coverts 
ochraceous; iris red. Senegambia to Congo. 
This is a bird of the dense thickets, and seldom seen. The only one we saw 
was brought in by a native at Bangah, October 26. It was in an abnormal con- 
dition of moult, with the rectrices of the left wing missing and the feathers of the 
left ventral feather tract just coming in. Biittikofer reported it from Buluma 
and Robertport as well as Schieffelinsville, and the Junk River, while Lowe 
was fortunate in securing specimens from Nana Kru, Settra Kru, and Subono 
on the south coast. Oberholser, who records a specimen from Mount Coffee, 
April 1, with the moult still in progress, erected for this species the genus Stel- 
gidillus, and Chubb in his list includes the bird twice, as S. liberiensis and Chlo- 
rocichla gracilirostris. 
Stelgidillas latirostris congener (Reichenow). Yellow-whiskered Bulbul 
Andropadus congener Reichenow, Journ. f. Ornith., vol. 45, p. 45, 1897: Togo, Agome Tongbe. 
Size of a sparrow; above, dark olive, the rump tinged with rusty, the tail dusky brown; a 
short blackish stripe from corner of mouth to ear, below which is a contrasting yellow stripe on each 
side; center of chin and the throat olive green, belly paler; under tail-coverts olive, tinged with 
rusty, feet and tip of bill pale yellowish. Senegambia to Gold Coast. 
This bulbul is one of the most characteristic birds of the dense forest, where 
it inhabits the lower story of tree growth. It is a persistent singer, and often 
in the course of a day’s march through the wooded country, its monotonous 
song is almost the only sound that breaks the stillness of noon-day. The song 
is a series of modulated ‘‘chirroups”’ reminding one a little of the notes of a 
House Sparrow, but fuller-toned, less harsh, the notes following one another in 
various tones. Its characteristic perch is in a clump of dense vines depending 
from a tree at about a height of forty feet, under taller forest trees. Here in the 
thickest part of the vines, the bird perches concealed and sings regularly at brief 
