484 Mr. D. A. Bannerman on the 



On the lower part of the mantle the feathers are brown 

 at the base followed by a wide band of deep purplish- 

 blue and broadly margined with shining peacock-green. 

 Rest of the upperparts, iucluding the wings and middle 

 pair of tail-featherSj purplish-brown glossed with ame- 

 thystine. Outer pairs of tail-feathers blackish, very broadly 

 tipped with dove-grey on both webs. Throat white. Entire 

 underparts grey including the under tail-coverts, becoming 

 whitish on the belly. Breast glossed with pinkish or greenish 

 according to the angle in which the light falls upon the 

 plumage. Scapulars and under wing-coverts sooty-brown. 



Culmen 13 mm.; wing 147; tail 125 ; tarsus 28. 



[Specimen described : No. 4. (^ ad. Cameroon Mt. 

 12. iv.09. Boyd Alexander Coll.] 



Adult female. Forehead grey, the feathers of the crown, 

 occiput, sides of the neck, and upper part of mantle 

 tipped with shining amethystine or emerald-green. The 

 feathers of the lower part of the mantle brown at the base 

 followed by a band of shining emerald-green and tipped 

 with amethystine. Rest of the upperparts olive-brown, 

 including the middle pair of tail-feathers. Outer tail- 

 feathers blackish broadly tipped on the inner web only with 

 dusky-grey. Chin Avhitish ; cheeks grey-brown. Entire 

 underparts cinnamon-brown, becoming pale cinnamon on 

 the under tail-coverts and whitish on the middle of the 

 belly. Underside of the wing grey-brown ; under wing- 

 coverts sooty-brown. 



Culmen 13 mm.; wing 148; tail 122; tarsus 27. 



[Specimen described : No. 3. ? ad. Cameroon Mt. 

 23. iv. 09. Boyd Alexander Coll.] 



From the above descriptions it will be seen that the 

 Cameroon Pigeon is only subspecifically distinct from 

 Haplopelia simplex. 



[Rare, found in the forest above Miissarka. — B. A.] 



5. Strix nuchale. 



Syrnium michale Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 487 : Fantee 

 Country, Gold Coast. 



a, b. S ^ • Cameroon Mt. 24, iv. 09. 



