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Show 1905.] MAMMALS AND BIRDS OF LIBERIA. 205 River is a little Waxbill or Weaver-bird (Sporceginthus mel-podus), about which Mr. Reynolds makes a curious statement. He remarks that this is a very pugnacious and spiteful little bird, which does not hesitate in small flocks to attack and kill small snakes and lizards. The birds endeavour to pick out the eyes of the creature they are attacking and then to tear off its flesh in small pieces. They carry these fragments to their nests, and whilst they are rotting flies settle on them. These flies form the food, or an addition to the food, of the nestlings. I append to this paper lists of the mammals and birds collected recently in Liberia by Mr. Alexander Whyte, Lt.-Col. Powney, Mr. Maitland Pye-Smith, and Mr. Harold Reynolds. A p p e n d ix I . L is t o f M am m a l s collected in Liberia in 1903-4 by Mr. Alexander Whyte, Lt.-Col. Powney, Mr. Maitland Pye-Smith, and others. A nthropopithecus troglodytes. Colobus ursinus. ,, ferrugineus. Cercopithecus buttikoferi. ,, diana buttikoferi, ,, diana ignita. Felis serval. ,, celidogaster. Viverra civetta. Crossarchus obscurus. Nandinia binotata. Lutra maculicollis. Graphiurus hueti. Anomalurus beecrofti. Cephalophus niger. ,, maxwelli. ,, dor ice. Bubalis major. Hippopotamus liberiensis. A p p e n d ix I I . L is t o f B ir d s collected in Liberia by Mr. Harold Reynolds. By C h a r l e s C h u b b , Zoological Department, British Museum. (Mr. Reynolds' notes are placed in square brackets.) References are given to the following papers and works which treat of the Ornithology of Liberia:- ( 1 ) B u t t ik o f e r , J.-Zoological Researches in Liberia. A List of Birds, collected by J. Buttikofer and C. F. Sala in Western Liberia, with biological observations. Notes from the Leyden Museum, vii. pp. 129-256 (1885). |