746 REPORT OF THE HARVARD AFRICAN EXPEDITION 
Like the preceding this is a forest bird, and seems to be much the rarer of the 
two. Biittikofer, in 1885, secured a specimen in young forest behind Monrovia 
and records others taken in later years at Schieffelinsville, Hill Town, and Johnny 
Creek. The only one we saw was a male collected by Whitman at Lenga ‘Town. 
Oberholser has recorded a male in moult, March 16, at Mount Coffee. 
STURNIDAE Starlings 
Lamprocolius cupreocauda Hartlaub. Glossy Starling 
Lamprocolius cupreocauda Hartlaub, Syst. Orn. Westafr., p. 119, 1857: Sierra Leone, Aguapin, 
Gaboon. 
Length 7 inches; entirely blackish with bright blue steely reflections except on occiput, neck, 
and throat where the reflections are violet, and on the tail where there are very faint bronzy re- 
flections. Iris golden, bill and feet black. Liberia to Gold Coast. 
Apparently this starling is of uncommon and sporadic distribution in Liberia. 
Biittikofer records a male from the Du River, and five specimens from Mt. 
Olive, Mt. Gallilee, Schieffelinsville, and Paynesville, and he later secured it at 
Robertport. Bannerman (1912) mentions one collected on the southern coast by 
Lowe at Nana Kru. We met with it but once, when on September 18 a small 
flock alighted in the nearly bare top of a high tree in the village compound at 
Gbanga and two were secured by Coolidge. Biittikofer has suggested that the 
specimen in the Stettin Museum taken many years before by Schweitzer and 
recorded as L. purpureiceps is undoubtedly this more northern form. 
Onychognathus fulgidus hartlaubii G. R. Gray 
Onychognathus hartlaubti G. R. Gray in Hartlaub, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1858, p. 291: Fernando 
Po. 
Large, 12 inches in length; shining black, the head and neck with steely green, the crown 
with more bluish reflections; back, lower side, and wing-coverts with purplish sheen; primaries 
dark reddish brown, black-tipped, the first one all black; iris red, bill and feet black. Female has 
the head and neck gray, the feathers with black steely streaks. Liberia to Congo, east to Nyam- 
nyam. 
In all the years of his collecting in Liberia, Biittikofer only once took this 
starling, a male and a female from Mt. Gallilee (Bittikofer, 1889, p. 123). 
More recently, however, Lowe secured it on the southern coast at Nana Kru 
(Bannerman, 1912). It is undoubtedly rare or perhaps of only occasional occur- 
rence as a visitor to the less-forested parts of the country. 
Cinnyricinclus leucogaster leucogaster (Gmelin). White-bellied Amethyst Starling 
Turdus lewcogaster Gmelin, Linné’s Syst. Nat., ed. 13, vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 819, 1788: Whidah country, 
Africa. 
Length 7 inches; head, throat and upper parts purple, with metallic reflections; rest of under 
parts white. Female mottled brown above, wings and tail darker; below whitish with an indistinct 
rufous band across chest. Gambia to 17 degrees south. 
According to Biittikofer, who secured a large series from the vicinity of Fisher- 
man Lake, this starling is exclusively a species of open country especially of 
grassy plains dotted with occasional small trees and thickets. It is therefore 
