COLLECTIONS OF L. FRASER, Esa. 
Fernando Po specimens, the other from specimens procured from 
South Africa by Dr. Smith. In the Naturalist’s Library Synopsis, 
p. 251, Fernando Po is given as a habitat for N. collaris, on the 
authority of Fraser. We do not now recal the circumstances, 
but suspect that the difference between the two birds was not then 
perceived. Dr. Hartlaub has not admitted this, nor N. collaris in 
his “ Verzeichniss.” 
N. COLLARIS, Vieiu. (1823). 
Cinnyris collaris, Vieill. Enc. Method. ii. p. 590 (1823).—— Sucrier gamtocin, ou a 
cordon blue, Le Vaill. Ois. d’Af. pl. 299. —— Nectarinia collaris, Jard. Nat. 
Lib. Synop. p. 251. 
$ Above, bright yellowish-green paler on rump; wings umber 
brown, edged with greenish-yellow; tail, greenish-black, broadly 
edged with deep green.— Below, chin, throat and upper breast, yel- 
lowish-green, shading into and terminating in a narrow band of blue 
glossed with violet ; lower breast and flanks dull yellow, shading to 
clear yellow on the centre of yent and under tail-covers ; axillary 
tufts pale yellow. 
Length, 3.8 to4.3; Dill slender, length to forehead, 5; wing, 
tod. 1. 
Habitat, Gamtoos, South Africa, Vadllant. 
N. HYPODILUS, Jarp, & Fras. (Nov. 1851). 
$ Above, bright bluish-green more yellow on the rump ; wings 
umber brown, edged with greenish-yellow; tail bluish-black. 
Below, chin, throat and upper breast, bluish-green, shading into and 
terminating in a narrow band of blue glossed with violet; lower 
breast and flanks dull yellow, shading to yellow on the centre; 
axillary tufts yellow, conspicuous. b Fe Megs 
Length, 3.8 to 4; bill strong, length to forehead, 63; wing, 2 .3. 
Habitat, vicinity of Clarence, Island of Fernando Po, L. Fraser. 
Another Nectarinia in the collection, which we have not previously 
observed, has the form and distribution of colours of N. eyanoce- 
phala, Vicill. Mr. Swainson, in his birds of mesic Africa, hints 
‘ , 
at a suspicion, that the Sout-manga « téte bleu, pl. vii., and the 
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