204 Mr. T. R. H. Thomson on a new species of Genetta. 



Museum, in the white band being considerably broader, and 

 not furnished with quite such long hair. 



Genetta Richardsonii, Richardson's Genette. — Rich ful- 

 vous ; three streaks on the nape, numerous unequal spots on 

 the back, side of the neck, sides and limbs, and twelve bands 

 on the tail black ; nose gray ; feet grayish fulvous, scarcely 

 spotted ; legs, cheeks, throat, middle of the chest and belly 

 and the inner side of the limbs brighter fulvous, especially on 

 the hinder part of the abdomen ; whiskers black, lower ones 

 whitish ; the pad of the toes is hairy ; hair of the middle toes 

 fulvous, of the rest gray ; the central pad of all the feet bald, 

 and the hinder foot with a narrow bald line extending nearly 

 to the heel, like the typical Genetta. 



Length, body and head, 13£ ; tail, 12J inches. 



Hab. Fernando Po. 



I have sent the specimen of the Genetta and the fragment 

 of the skin of the Guereza to the British Museum collection. 

 I shall now proceed to describe two birds which appear to be 

 new. 



Tchitrea atrochalybeia. Deep shining steel-black, with the 

 base of each feather dull black ; quills and tail black, mar- 

 gined exteriorly with steel-black. 



Length, total, 9|- inches ; bill, f ; wing, 3£ ; tarsi, j ; tail, 

 middle feather, 5f ; the next exterior one, 3|. 



Hab. Fernando Po. 



Porphyrio Alleni. Head and neck black tinged with blue ; 

 back and wings greenish olive, tinged on the rump with bluish 

 black ; beneath the body indigo-blue ; bill crimson ; frontlet 

 blue ; legs and toes yellow. 



Length, total, ll£ inches ; bill, 1 \ ; wing 6^ ; tarsi, 2 inches 

 and 1 line. 



Hab. W. Africa, Idda, near the confluence of the river. 



Mr. Gray, w T ho kindly assisted me in determining these 

 species, informs me, that besides the above, there has been re- 

 corded as found in Fernando Po the following species of 

 Mammalia and Reptiles : — Colobus Pennanti ?, C. Satanas, 

 Cercopithecus Martini, C. erythrotis, Galago Alleni, Rhi- 

 nolophus Landeri, Genetta Poensis, Lutra Poensis, Mus Alleni, 

 Antilope Ogilbii, Chameleo Oweni (tricornis), Ch, cristatus 

 and C. Bibronii, and Crocodilus Leptorhynchus. 



There are doubtless several others, and it is to be remarked 

 that most of the animals found in the islands are different 

 species to those found on the continent. 



I have several new species of squirrels, especially a flying 

 squirrel with scales under the tail ; and a new species of an- 

 telope, and several new species of birds, which it is my inten- 



