94 Mr. D. A. Bannerman on the 



On January 2G we left for the port [Sao Thome vilhige]. 

 The weather here is still fine, in spite of its heing the rainy 

 season. A pleasant breeze always gets up from the south- 

 east about 10 o'clock and blows till about 4 o'clock. Our 

 collections from the hills number fifty specimens in all. 



On the 4th of February Jose left with the carriers for 

 Zalma, a place about one and a half hours' walk south from 

 here, where he is going to collect. In that neighbourhood 

 the ground is chiefly owned by the Sao Thome natives. 

 They are a poor people ; all the good land has been taken 

 from them, and they now only possess small plots of maize 

 near the -coast. Jose has a good camp, and I go out every 

 day to see him and shoot on the way. 



On February the 12th Jose arrived in from his camp : he 

 had something like forty-five specimens, including four 

 examples of the rare Owl, Flammeu jiamm.ea thumensis ; but 

 I do not think there is anything new^ unless it is one of the 

 Ground- Pigeons''^ {Ifajdopelia). The same day we left about 

 12.30 in the s s. 'Tonga' for Annobon, which g;ive me the 

 opportunity of seeing the whole of the western coast of 

 St. Thomas. The island presents a mountainous and rugged 

 appearance, and some of the peaks are very remarkable in 

 their shape, especially the Dog Peak. It is like a gigantic 

 obelisk, so regular in its contour that it is difficult to realise 

 Nature alone has carved it. 



Systematic List. 



1. Onycognathus fulgidns. 



Onycoynalhus falyidus llartl. ; Salvadori, Orn. Golfo d. 

 Guinea, ii. 1903, p. 31 ; Bocage, Jorn. Sci. Lisboa, 1905, 

 p. 78 ; Shelley, Birds of Africa, v. 1906, p. 97. 



This Starling is confined to St. Thomas, where it is said 

 to be exceedingly abundant. 



Curiously enough, Alexander did not obtain a single 

 specimen. 



■ * Noue of the Ground-Pigeons obtained by Alexander proved to be 

 new to science. One species only was represented on St. Thomas, 

 Haplopelia simplex (Plartl.), of which a large series was procured. 



