234 Oil the Birds of Annobun Island. 



In adult plumage this Pigeon has the breast and belly 

 grey, and loses the speckled rufous feathers which are 

 found in immature birds. In fact, in the above series, 

 if I am correct in my surmise, there is only one specimen 

 (No. 4) which can truly be considered to have gained the 

 fully adult plumage. In several immature specimens the 

 crown of the head is thickly covered with rufous-bespeckled 

 feathers, while in others, which have already begun to 

 assume the green-glossed feathers of the mantle and nape, 

 there is only a small patch of rufous feathers on the hind 

 crown. These rufous feathers are entirely wanting in the 

 adult, and disappear first from the head and lastly from the 

 breast. 



Fea's notes on Turturosna malherbei in Annobon are as 

 follows : — " Very common in the dense forest between 

 400-500 metres. Its guttural note is tircsomely mono- 

 tonous, as it calls incessantly from dawn till nightfall. 

 The natives call it ' Lola esalibavan.' " 



16. Haplopelia hypoleuca. 



HaplopeUa liypultuca Salvador!, Orn. Golfo d. Guinea, iii. 

 1903, p. 96. 



Boyd Alexander did not succeed in procuring an example 

 of this rare Pigeon, which was discovered on the island of 

 Annobon by Fea. 



The type, which is in the Turin Museum, is described at 

 length by Count Salvadori in his paper quoted above. 



Fea found it rare. Locally it was known as " Lola 

 san-san." 



We therefore have four representatives of the genus 

 Haplopelia inhabiting the islands in the Gulf of Guinea. 



17. *Niimida meleagris. 



Numida meleagris Linn. ; Salvadori, Orn. Golfo d. Guinea, 

 iii. 1903, p. 97; Bocage, Jorn. Sci. Lisboa, 1903, p. 57. 



a. S ad. (No. 1). 16.ii.09. 



The Guinea-fowl is not rare on Annobon, according to 

 Fea. Alexander only procured one example, which I cannot 

 distinguish from typical N. meleagris. Probably it has 

 been introduced from the m.ainland. 



