COLLECTIONS OF L. FRASER, Esa. 
gray; throat and upper breast, bright green with metallic lustre, 
bounded beneath with an orange pectoral band ; belly gray; flanks, 
vent and under tail-covers, greenish-yellow. 
Length, 4.3; bill to forehead, 5; wing, 2.3 to 4. 
2 Above, yellowish-green, paler on rump.—- Below, yellowish-gray, 
inclining to pale yellow on vent and under tail-covers. 
Length, 4 to 4.3; wing, 2.3 to 4 
Habitat, vicinity of Clarence, Fernando Po, L. Fraser. 
Psittacula pullaria, not yet recorded as occurring in Fernando 
Po, forms part of the collection. 
There are three specimens of the Bucco, of which Mr. Fraser 
gaye the characters in Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1843, p. 4, note. No 
specific name was then given to it; and as it appears not to have 
been noticed elsewhere, it may hereafter stand as — 
BUCCO STELLATUS, Jann. & Fras. (1843) Nov. 1851. 
Above, brownish-black, feathers tipped with yellow; wings and 
tail brown, feathers edged with dull yellow. — Below, yellowish- 
white, belly and vent dashed with yellow; bill black. 
Length, 4.8; bill to forehead, 6; wing, 2.4. 
Habitat, vicinity of Clarence, Fernando Po, L. Fraser. 
We have once or twice received from Western Africa mutilated 
specimens of a small Estrelda which we set down as the Z. astrild 
(Linn.) In Mr. Fraser’s collection, however, we find two good and 
perfect specimens of a small species, which at first sight appeared 
like the South African bird, but upon comparison it showed some 
differences, and appears to be one of those western representatives 
which we have seen so largely running through the Ornithology of 
the two sides of that great continent. Nothing resembling this is 
mentioned in Dr. Hartlaub’s list. 
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