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Cuculus ruhicuhis, Swains. Jard. Nat. Lib. vol. (Ora.) viii. ; B. of 

 W. Africa, p, 181, 1837. 



Hub. Fernando Po. 



Very shy : irides red hazel, cere and legs bright yellow, base of 

 both mandibles yellow, mouth red. 



Zariclostomus flavlrostris, Swains. Jard. Nat. Lib. vol. (Orn.) 

 viii. ; B. of W. Africa, p. 183. pi. 19, 1837. 



Hub. Fernando Po (June). 



Somewhat like a magpie, jerking and bobbing its tail and making 

 a carr-r-r-r-ring noise as it hops from branch to branch ; also a fast 

 runner. A mantis found in the gizzard. Irides red, bill yellow, legs 

 nearly black, cere turquois colour. The sexes do not differ. 



Centropus Senegalensis, 111., Swains. Jard. Nat. Lib. vol. (Orn.) 

 viii. ; B. of W. Africa, p. 185. pi. 20, 1837. 



Hab. Cape Palmas and Accra. 



Found on or near the ground. 



Peristera tynipanistera, Temm. 



Hab. Fernando Po (June). 



A female M'as killed on the nest, which was composed of small 

 roots, and contained two white eggs ; the nest was placed on the 

 broken part of a small tree, about three feet from the ground. Irides 

 hazel, bill and feet reddish plum-colour. 



Chcetopiis Adansonii, Swains. Jard. Nat. Lib. vol. (Orn.) viii. ; B. 

 of W. Africa, p. 217, 1837. 



Hab. Central Africa. 



This specimen was shot nearly opposite Iddah, about two hundred 

 miles up the river Niger (August). 



Glureola torquuta, Temm. 



Hab. Accra. 



Rhynchops Orientalis, Riippell, Atl. Zool. pi. 24. 

 Hab. Mouth of the river Nun (August). 



Mr. Fraser also called attention to two specimens of a species of 

 Manis, which he laid before the Meeting. These, he observed, agreed 

 in their characters with the species described by Mr. Gray in a com- 

 munication read at the Meeting for February 28th of the present 

 year, under the name Manis midtiscutata. They were procured by 

 Mr. Fraser at Fernando Po, and upon his return to England he had, 

 upon comparing the specimens on the table with others of the Manis 

 tetradacttjla, perceived those differences upon which Mr. Gray founds 

 the M. multiscutata. The animals, judging from their bones, M'ere 

 evidently not adult ; the largest measured thirty inches in length, of 

 which the head and bodj^ were twelve inches, and the tail eighteen 

 inches. He had kept them alive for about a week at Fernando Po, 

 and allowed them the range of a room, where they fed ujjon a small 

 black ant, which is very abundant and troublesome in the houses 

 and elsewhere. Even when first procured they displayed little or 

 no fear, but continued to climb about the room without noticing his 

 occasional entrance. They would climb up the somewhat roughly. 



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