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to have been obtained at Fernando Po, and which is now 

 deposited in the British Museum. It is figured in the ' Zoologica 

 Typica/ pi. 47, by Mr. Fraser. 



Young. — Dull olivaceous-green ; beneath the body dull oliva- 

 ceous-yellow ; bill and feet blackish lead-colour. 



Strobilophaga Burtnni. 



Fuscous, varied with pale olivaceous on the sides of the plumes; 

 wing-coverts fuscous-black, tipped with white; quills and tail 

 fuscous- black, margined narrowly with yellow; abdomen obscure 

 white, spotted with fuscous-black down the shaft of some of the 

 feathers ; upper mandible horn-colour, lower mandible white ; 

 feet plumbeous. 



Total length, 7" ; wings, 3" 6'"; tarsi, 9'"; bill, from gape, 8'". 



The formation of this bird agrees in every respect with the 

 genus Pinicola or Strobilophaga. A species of this genus has 

 not hitherto been recorded as found in Africa. 



To these may be added the 



Cosmetornis Burtoni. 



It is very similar to the Cos7netornis vexillarius (Gould), G. R. Gr., 

 but differs in the white spot at the base of each quill being nar- 

 rower, while the white at the tip of the second, third, fourth, 

 and fifth quills is more prominent and slightly mottled with 

 rufous on the outer web ; the first quill longer than the second, 

 fuscous-black, and partly margined with rufous on the outer 

 webs ; the sixth feather is rather longer than the fifth, the seventh 

 rather longer than the latter ; both are fuscous-black, slightly 

 mottled with pale rufous, having the bases of the inner webs 

 white; the eighth is much longer than the first quill, and fus- 

 cous-black, slightly mottled with pale rufous, the base of the 

 inner web white or pale rufous; the ninth feather (or, as it has 

 been termed, " standard feather ") is the longest of all, measuring 

 more than 17in.; it is white at the base of both inner and outer 

 webs, but passing into pale rufous, or rufous- white mottled with 

 black, on the outer web, while the inner is only rufous-white 

 for its entire length from the basal white. 



The specimen is in an imperfect state, and only sufficient to 

 afford the above description so as to distinguish it from the 

 previously known species. The British Museum is indebted to 

 the liberality of Capt. Burton, H.M. Vice-Consul, who has just 

 sent it with other zoological specimens, all marked as from 

 Fernando Po, and after whom I have the pleasure of naming 

 this interesting bird. 



