— IQ5 — 



bv RoBix at Abeokuta. Bovn Ai.exander shot one at Lake Chad 

 in N. Nigérian territorv. 



Two races of this Dove are recognised. 



1. — TVMPAMSTRIA lYMPANISTRIA TYMPANISTRIA. 



Coluniha t\iiipain'stiia Tkmm. and Knip., Pig. Colombes, 1810, 

 p. 80. Tvpe localitv : S. Africa. 



Range. — Africa south of the Cunene and Zambesi rivers. 

 Represented in the Britisb Muséum from Southern Rhodesia, 

 Portuguese East Africa, Mashonaland, Natal, Cape Colony. 



Disttnguishiiig chnracters. — Cf. Hartert and Goodson, Nov. 

 ZooL, XXV, 1918, p. 435. 



2. TyMPANISTRIA TYMPANISTRIA FRASERI. 



Cf. supra. 



Range. — Sierra Leone, Libéria, Gold Coast, S. Nigeria, French 

 Congo, N. Belgian Congo, Cameroon, Gaboon, N. x\ngola, Fer- 

 nando Po, in West Africa ; and in Abyssinia, French Equatorial 

 Africa, Kenya Colonv, Uganda, Tanganvika Territorv, Nvasaland, 

 Rhodesia, and the E. Belgian Congo, in East Africa. It also occurs 

 in the Comoro Islands and in Madagascar. 



Dùii/igiiisfinig characters. — General colour usuallv darker, 

 and on an average somewhat larger. 



Rare. One shot on Jan. i4th was carrving nesting material. — 

 \V. P. L.) 



Turtur afra. 



? Turtitr afra sclateri Rothschild, Bull. B. O. C, XXXVIH, 

 1917, pp. 266138 (correction). — Tvpe locality : West xA.trica. 



Spécimens of the Blue-spotted Wood-Dove were obtained in 

 Southern Nigeria by Kemp at Agoulerie and by Mann at Lagos 

 and Okeodan. 



