2.28 Mr. D. A. Bannerman on the 



pp. 89-121). Birds marked with an asterisk are represented 

 in the Alexander collection in the British Museum. 



Very few papers dealing with the Birds of Annobon 

 have appeared. Those of which I have made use^ including 

 the two gi'eat works on African Birds, are : — 



BoCAGE. Jorn. Sci. Lisboa, 1893, pp. 17-18, 44-45 ; 1903, pp. 55- 



58. 

 Salvadori. Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino, 1903 (Orn. Golfo d. Guinea, 



iii. pp. 93-98). 

 Rkichenow. Yogel Afrikas, vols, i.-iii., 1900-1905. 

 Shelley. Birds of Africa, vols, i.-v., 1896-1912. 



The following account of Annobon is taken from ' Boyd 

 Alexander's Last Journey/ edited by Mr. Herbert Alexander, 

 to whom full acknowledgments are due. 



Boijd Alexander's Description of Annobon. 



About 9 A.M. on the 13th of February (1909) the faint 

 outline of Annobon came into sight, and we reached the 

 island at 11 o'clock. 



Annobon is a volcanic rock rising abruptly out of the 

 sea and clothed with scrubby growth towards the top. The 

 white building of the Roman Catholic Mission, a little way 

 above the beach and surrounded by palm-growth, is the first 

 object to catch the eye. Then close to the shore itself, 

 amongst a picturesque grove of cocoanut-trees, are rows of 

 oblong huts containing almost all that Annobon can boast 

 of in the way of inhabitants. In the interior of the 

 island, especially round the lake, are cassada farms, and 

 bananas are roughly cultivated. The inhabitants numl^er 

 about 1300 souls, and I do not think that I have ever seen 

 a more nondescript-looking lot. It would be difficult, 

 from a racial point of view, to place them. 



We landed soon after 12 o'clock, and the next day left at 

 6.30 A.M. for the lake, which we took about three-quarters 

 of an hour to reach. It is one of the most remarkable 

 geographical features I haA^e seen in Africa. After an 

 ascent of some 1300 feet one is suddenly confronted with a 

 circular lake, about a mile in circumference. It is like the 



