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Show 1905. J MAMMALS AND BIRDS OF LIBERIA. 203 destroy birds and beasts around them. They are, 011 the other hand, rather kindly disposed towards these creatures. In the interior the indigenous natives have an extraordinary craving for meat, which they satisfy partly by cannibalism, but also by devouring even the skin of the creatures that they snare or shoot. On the lower part of the St. Paul's River, I have sometimes seen only one bird in the course of a whole day, and that is the very common Angola Vulture. As soon as you get into the forest the beautiful Blue Plantain-eaters (Corythceola cristaia) become fairly common, and enliven the woods with their strange cries. Although this bird is so abundant in Liberia, very little seems to be known by the natives regarding its nesting-habits. I have received the young of Turacus and Gcdlirex from the nest in other parts of Africa, when the nestlings were at most four days old, and I have noticed that they were fairly well covered, except on the head, with long, fleecy, purplish-grey down. It would be very interesting to ascertain the condition of the young in Corythoeola, as to Avhether they are born absolutely naked or partially covered with down. It is interesting to note that this bird alone amongst the family of the Turacos offers a marked difference in size and coloration between the male and the female. The male of Corythceola is at least a fourth larger than the female, and the coloration is much brighter and the crest larger. In the other members of this family there is apparently little or no difference in size or coloration between the male and female. The fine examples of Corythceola which have been collected by Mr. Harold Reynolds in Liberia only differ from those I have obtained in the western parts of Uganda by the blue in the male being slightly more ultramarine than the blue verditer of the Uganda specimens. Young specimens in their first year are much paler and greyer than the adults. 1 believe the specimens which I sent back from Uganda will establish this point. The Violaceous Plantain-eater is found in Liberia, though it is very scarce. I saw a specimen twenty-two miles inland from Monrovia, at the house of a German planter. The Turacos of Liberia seem to be Turacus persa and Turacus macrorhynchus. T. maq'orhynclius is the common form in Liberia. Tlie only two Guinea-fowls appear to be the rare White-necked (.Agelastes meleagricles), and the Crested (Guttera cristata). The Agelastes is rather a small bird, with an absolutely bare red head in the male. The female or the young bird has short brownish feathers on the head, and the breast and neck seem to be only patched with white, and not wholly of that colour. The Francolins as yet recorded are Francolinus ahantenis (which is usually miscalled the Guinea-fowl by the Americo-Liberians) and Francolinus lathami. I saw no true Vultures anywhere in Liberia, the scavenging being done chiefly by the black and white Scapulated Crows. As already mentioned, the so-called Fishing-Vulture, Gypohierax cmgolensis, is common. Vultures always seem to shun the thickly forested regions of Africa, the only member of the group which in any way enters the forest-region being the Necrosyrtes moncicus. But although |