﻿in connection with the ornithology of Western Africa, discovered the present species in 

 Fernando Po, and it has since been met with on the opposite coast of the Continent, but 

 so far as we yet know, it is strictly confined to Western Africa. 



Mr. Fraser has supplied us with the following details respecting it: " This species 

 I believe to be peculiar to the island of Fernando Po, where it is by no means uncommon. 

 It frequents the solitary brooks, which everywhere intersect that island. Its habits and 

 manners, as far as opportunity offered of observing them, were precisely the same as those 

 of our British Kingfisher, perching upon the over hanging branches and stones, from 

 whence it darts upon the small fish, with which these streams abound." 



The MM. Verreaux also state that in Gaboon, "it frequents the rivers, where it 

 feeds on little fishes." 



The figure is taken from an example in the Leiden Museum, but the description from 

 the type- specimen which has been kindly lent me by Mr. Eyton, in whose collection it 

 still remains. 



