710 REPORT OF THE HARVARD AFRICAN EXPEDITION 
Calyptocichla serina (J. and E. Verreaux) 
Criniger serinus J. and E. Verreaux, Journ. f. Orn., vol. 3, p. 105, 1855: Gaboon. 
Length 8 inches; above yellowish olive green; pale gray before the eye, the ear region gr ayish 
green with fine white shaft stripes; throat whitish, rest of under side bright yellow; bill reddish 
brown. Liberia to Loango. 
Biittikofer’s record of a specimen taken at Schieffelinsville is the only basis 
for including this species. 
Phyllastrephus albigularis (Sharpe) 
Xenocichla albigularis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. 6, p. 103, pl. 7, 1881: Fanti. 
Length about 7 inches; above olive green, browner on head, the tail rusty; sides of head gray; 
wings dark brown edged with olive; chin white, breast white washed with yellowish, rest of lower 
side white. Sierra Leone to Congo. 
An adult male collected at Jarjee, a Golah town up the Marfa River, is the 
only record (Biittikofer, 1890, p. 203). 
Pycnonotus barbatus inornatus (Fraser). Common Bulbul; ‘‘Pepper-bird”’ 
Ixos inornatus Fraser, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1848, p. 27. Cape Coast Colony, West Africa. 
Size of a thrush; above olive brown, slightly darker on head, and blackish on tail; throat like 
back; belly and under tail-coverts pure white. West Africa. 
Although Reichenow believed this race not distinguishable, it seems slightly 
smaller than typical barbatus from North Africa. This is a familiar bird every- 
where in somewhat open country, and around villages and clearings. Its clear 
notes, with characteristic interruptions, are among the first bird voices that one 
hears in the early morning. The birds feed eagerly on small fruits of various 
kinds, and from their fondness for the small scarlet pods of pepper are often 
called Pepper-birds. 
Atimastillas simplex (Hartlaub) 
Trichophorus simplex Hartlaub, Journ. f. Orn., vol. 3, pp. 356, 360, 1855: Rio Boutry. 
Length 8.5 inches; dark olive brown above, lores blackish, a narrow white line on upper 
and lower eyelids; chin and throat white, breast olive brown, center of belly pale buffy, flanks 
olive, tinged with rusty; under wing-coverts, inner edges of remiges, tips and inner edges of outer 
tail-feathers ochraceous. Portuguese Guinea to Congo. 
An uncommon bird of which we secured a single specimen only, at Gbanga. 
Biittikofer records it from Robertport and Schieffelinsville and Lowe collected 
it at Settra Kru. 
| Phyllastrephus baumanni Reichenow 
Phyllostrephus baumanni Reichenow, Orn. Monatsb., 1895, p. 96: “Misahohe”’; fig. in Jour. f. 
Orn., vol. 45, pl. 2, ig. 1) 1397, 
Length 7 inches; above olive brown, the tail and rump slightly more rusty; tail graduated, 
its outer feathers 16 mm. shorter than the central ones; chin soiled white, breast and belly olive 
gray, clearer in center of belly; under wing-coverts pale yellow; inner edges of remiges pale buffy; 
lower mandible and feet pale gray. ek 
A bird that corresponds perfectly with Reichenow’s description of this species 
was taken at Paiata on October 14, and seems to extend the known range of 
