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rate, third and fourth quills longest and nearly equal ; tail rather long, even or 

 slightly rounded ; feet weak. 



Total length about 8 inches, wing 3J, tail 3} inches. 



Throat with a few feathers of bright scarlet. Head above and entire under 

 parts fine blue, lighter and inclining to green in front and over the eyes. Back 

 and wings chestnut. Tail above blue, darker than that of the under parts of the 

 body, with the inner webs of the outer feathers black, beneath black. Auricular 

 feathers bluish black, under wing covets pale rufous chestnut. Bill and feet 

 dark. 



Hab. Muni River, Western Africa. Discovered by Mr. P. B. DuChaillu. 



One specimen only of this curious and very handsome species is in the collec- 

 tion. It is a true 3Ieropisms, and though but little larger than M. gularis, and 

 strictly of the same form, does not resemble it in colors. 



As a slight testimony to his accomplishments as a naturalist and enterprize 

 as a scientific traveller, this handsome bird is dedicated to my friend, the Baron 

 John William Von Milller of Wiirtemberg, distinguished for his Zoological Re- 

 searches in North Eastern and Central Africa. 



39. Cypselus ambrosiacus, (Gmelin.) 

 Hirundo ambrosiaca, Gm. -^yst. Nat. ii. p. 1051. 

 Cypselus parvus, Licht. Verz. p. 58. 



Temm. PI. Col. 460, fig. 2. 



40. Atticora nitens, nobis. 



Tail neai-ly square, not forked, and but slightly emarginate, the tips of the 

 feathers slightly produced or mucronate. Bill short, rather wide at base, weak ; 

 wing long, the first quill longest with its outer edge having reversed serrations 

 rough to the touch ; tail rather long. Quills wide, primaries somewhat curved. 



Total length about 4J inches, wing 3|, tail 2^ inches. 



Throat fuliginous. Entire other plumage greenish black with a tinge of brown 

 on the back and darkest on the abdomen and under tail coverts, and in the 

 whole plumage having a green metallic lustre. Quills and tail black, edged 

 with glossy dark green. Bill and feet dark. 



Hah. Muni River, Western Africa. Discovered by Mr. P. B. DuCbaillu. 



I have in this collection four specimens of this species, labelled as both sexes, 

 and can refer them to no description given in the books. This species appears 

 to resemble Hirundo ohseura, Temm. Cabanis' Jcur. 1855, p. 355, but has no such 

 character as " cauda profunde fiircata." On the contrary, the tail is quite square 

 or truncate and but slightly emarginate. 



41. Apaloderma narina, (Vieillot.) 

 Trogon narina, Vieill. 



Le Vaill. Ois. d'Af. pi. 228, 229 ; Gould, Monogr. pi. 26. 



The first instance of the occurrence of this well known species in Western 

 Africa. One very fine specimen is in the present collection, and is precisely 

 identical with numerous others now before me from the Cape of Good Hope. 



42. Zanclostomus flavirostris, Swainson. 

 Zanclostomus flavirostris, Sw. B. of W. Af. ii, p. 183, pl» 19. 



43. Dendrobates, Swainson. 



There are in the collection, two species which I cannot at present determine. 

 There are also specimens of one sijecies of Woodpecker not belonging to this 

 genus. Numerous specimens of species of this family being now in the posses- 

 sion of the Academy I propose at an early period to make them the object of 

 special study. 



44. Nectauinia superba, (Vieillot ) 

 Certhia superba, Vieill. 



Vieill. Ois. Dor. pi. 22. 



Really a superb species, apparently not uncommon in Equatorial Africa. 



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