THE BIRDS OF LIBERIA 729 
Tschagra australis ussheri (Sharpe). Ussher’s Red-winged Shrike 
Laniarius ussheri Sharpe, in Layard’s Birds of So. Africa, p. 397, 1882: Gold Coast. 
Smaller, length 7.5 inches; crown and entire back olive brown; a narrow black eye-stripe, 
a white superciliary stripe, bordered above by a second black stripe; wings dark brown, the edges 
of the feathers and most of the wing-coverts chestnut; chin and middle of breast white, the sides 
eae with gray; tail black, graduated, each feather broadly tipped with white. Gold Coast to 
iberia. 
We secured four specimens at Gbanga in September, including one young 
bird, on the 15th, which seem to be the first recorded for Liberia. It was un- 
common but we saw a few at Gbanga in bushy tangles along the edges of clear- 
ings by streams. Always they were shy and watchful, keeping near the ground 
or among fallen branches into which they retreated at once when approached. 
The immature bird has the eye-stripe buffy. It may be that Biittikofer at times 
confused this species with the following which he records from Cape Mount, 
but Kemp (1905) found it much the rarer of the two in southeastern Sierra 
Leone. Thompson (1925) notes its habit of scratching among fallen leaves. 
Tschagra senegala senegala (Linné). Senegal Red-winged Shrike 
Lanius senegalus Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, vol. 1, pt. 1, p. 137, 1766: Senegal. 
Length 9 inches; crown black, a white superciliary line becoming ocher yellow behind; a 
black line through the eye; neck and back yellowish brown to rusty, rump gray, wing-coverts 
rusty, the inner ones blackish brown with rusty edges, wing-feathers the same; throat and middle 
of belly white, sides gray; middle tail-feathers gray-brown barred with dusky, the others black 
with white tips, the outermost with white edges. Africa south of the Sahara. 
Biuttikofer found this shrike at the estuary of Grand Cape Mount, in the 
small “‘bosquets’’ and so-called wild peach trees (Anona) with which the grassy 
plains are interspersed. We did not meet with it. 
Nicator chloris chloris (Lesson). Yellow-spotted Bush Shrike 
T schagra chloris Lesson, Traité d’Orn., 1831, p. 373: Africa, Galam. 
Size of a thrush, 9 inches; above olive green, wings blackish edged with olive green; inner 
wing-feathers and larger coverts with a terminal lhght-yellow spot; eye-ring and cheeks yellow- 
green; a white spot before the eye; chin white, breast gray, paling on the sides; under tail-coverts 
yellow. Senegal to the Lakes. 
A generally distributed species in the under story of high forest, but appar- 
ently nowhere common. 
Chlorophoneus zosterops (Biittikofer) 
Laniarius zosterops Bittikofer, Notes Leyden Mus., vol. 11, p. 98, 1889: Du River. 
Crown, neck, and upper back gray, ear region darker; a black band from forehead to eye and 
ear region; eyelids grayish white; back olive green; breast orange, belly yellow; tail with yellow 
tips to feathers. 
This shrike is known from Biittikofer’s description only, based on an adult 
female from the Du River. 
