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Habitat- Aboh^ River Quorra^ West Africa. A very scarce 
bird. 
Presented by Dr. Thomson to the British Museum, 
Nectarinia ciiloi^opygia. (Jardine, Nat. Hist. Nectariuidse, 
p. 172.) 
Above, rich emerald bronzed green j wings and tail brownish- 
black, former, with the edges of the feather, oil green, latter 
glossed with green. Below, chin velvet black ; throat, neck and 
breast, emerald green, terminated by a narrow band of bluish 
green; lower breast with a band of scarlet red; belly, flanks, 
and under tail covers pale oil green; auxiliary tufts ample 
king’s yellow ; bill, tarsi, and feet, black. 
Length, 4^; bill to gape, wings to longest quiU, 1 in. 
Female, olive oil green ; wings and tail umber brown. Below, 
chin yellowish white; breast and flanks more yellow, shading to 
pale but pure gamboge yellow in the middle of the belly; bill, 
tarsi, and feet dark umber brown. 
Length, S inch. wings to longest <]^uill, 1 inch y^. 
Habitat. Fernando Po. 
From Mr. Fraser’s collection. 
Family. Syndactyli. 
Genus. Alcedo, 
Halcyon leucogaster. (Fraser, in Proc. ZooL Soc. Lend., 
Jan., 1843.) 
Hale, vertice nigro et coeruleo alternatim fasciato, nota grandi 
rufo ab utraque nari oriente et mandibulco inferioris basin cir- 
cumdante, necnon aures, et capitis latera exinde super oculos 
tendente, et per latera colli, eorporisque sic et alarum tectrices 
ducta; dorso splendid^ coeruleo, quo color colore tectrices alarum 
marginatse, alse, caudaque lavatse sunt, gula, pectore et abdomine 
in medio albis ; rostro pedibusque rubris. 
Long. tot. 5^ poll.; rostri, 1^; ala?, 2^; caudse, ly; tarsi, 
Habitat. Clarence, Fernando Po. 
“ Crown of the bead alternately banded with blue and black; 
from each nostril commences a large patch of rufous, which 
