BIRDS OF WESTERN AFRICA. 
Sout-manga Vert et Gris, pl. xxv. of the Ois d’or., may not be the 
same species. They are from different localities, and the blue of 
the head is described as of different shades. Plate xxv. does not 
agree with Mr. Fraser’s birds, in wanting entirely any trace of a 
gular patch, but it may have been partially immature. It is certain 
however, that the two birds before us are quite distinct, and the 
present one does not seem to have been noticed previously. It 
differs in having coronal and gular patches only of deep shining blue, 
instead as in NV. eynocephala, of that colour covering the whole head 
and breast, which besides in the latter is more violet tinted ; in the 
upper plumage, instead of yellowish-green, being all of a dull grayish- 
black, and in the under parts being of a much paler tint. 
N. CYANOLEMUS, Japp. & Fras. (Nov. 1851). 
6 Above, dark grayish-black; crown and forehead, indigo with 
metallic lustre. — Below, brownish-gray, palest on vent and under 
tail-covers; chin and throat indigo with metallic lustre, forming 
an oval patch terminating upon the breast; axillary tufts very pale 
yellow. 
Length, 5.5; bill to forehead, §; wing, 2.9. 
? Above, yellowish-green, more yellow on the rump; wings and 
tail umber brown, feathers edged with yellowish-green.— Below, 
grayish-brown ; flanks, vent and under tail-covers greenish-yellow ; 
gular patch indistinctly defined by a darker and browner tint. 
Length, 5.3; bill to forehead, 8; wing, 2.6. 
Habitat, vicinity of Clarence, Fernando Po, L. Fraser. 
A third very beautiful Nectarinia we have not before seen. The 
bill is straighter than in general, and the bird somewhat Anthreptes 
like, still we consider it as strictly a Nectarinia. 
N. TEPHROLEMUS, Jaro. & Fras. (Nov. 1851). 
3 Above, head, back and cheeks, bright bluish-green, with metallic 
lustre ; rump and upper tail-covers dull yellowish-green ; wings and 
tail deep brown, feathers edged with greenish-yellow. — Below, chin 
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