BIKDS OF WESTERN AFRICA. 
.COLLECTIONS OF L. FRASER, Esq. 
Mr. Cumming has forwarded to us for examination another collec- 
tion, just received from Mr. Fraser, accompanied by a list, bearing 
the localities of the specimens, and the date of “ November, 1851. 
The collection, procured chielly at Abomey, a few at Old Calabar, 
is not so interesting as that noticed in “ Contributions,” 1851, p. 
151 ; still there are some species that require a short notice, and 
there are one or two which do not occur in Hartlaub’s “ Ver- 
zeichniss.” 
HIItUNDO GORDONI, Jard. (No. 184). 
We were glad to see another specimen of this Swallow. It con- 
firms the distinctions pointed out between it and H. melanocrissus , 
Riipp., and agrees with those described in “Contributions,” 1851, 
p. 141. This specimen is from Abomey. 
HALCYON PYGMEA, Ruff. 
Nos. 101, 166. 
W e have not been able to compare any specimen not from 
Western Africa, with our own examples from Sierra Leone, which 
agree with those now before us, except in the lower breast and 
under parts being more tinted with sienna. Bonaparte separates 
the West -African birds from ItiippeH’s, under the name of H. stri- 
olata , but a slight difference in size seems the only distinction. 
Fraser’s specimens are from Abomey. This species is not in Hart- 
laub’s list. •: vY r 
Two specimens of an Irieaor (Nos. 218, 231), are in this collec- 
tion, marked by Mr. Fraser as /. erythrorhynchus , having both the 
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