W. R. OGILVIE-GRANT— AVES. 447 



Family CoLUMEiDi;. 



Vixago calva (Temni.). 



Vinago calva Reich. Vog. Air. i. p. 394, (1901) ; Grant, Ibis, 1908, p. 316. 



a. 6 . 40 miles W. of Fort P>eni, Semliki Valley, 3000 ft., 13th Aug. [No. 3548. 

 B. B. IF.] 



Iris light blue ; cere and basal part of the bill pink, tip white ; feet yellow. 



[This Green Fruit-Pigeon was very plentiful in the Congo Forest. It was to be 

 seen flying about in small flocks of from 10 to 15 individuals, which usually kept to 

 the tree-tops.— U. B. W.] 



Haplopelia jacksoni Sharpe. 



Haplopelia jacksoni Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. xiv. p. 93 (1904) [Ruweuzori]. 



a, b. ? et 2 juv. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 8000 ft., 20th & 21st Jan. 

 [Nos. 1170. I). C. ; 3125. B. B. W.] 



c. d . Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 6500 ft., 9th Feb. [No. 2150. G. L.] 



d, e. 6 et 6 imm. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 8000-9000 ft., 13th-30th March. 

 [Nos. 1335. I). C; 2262. G. />.] 



Iris dark reddish-brown, purple, or mauve ; bill black ; feet dark pink or dull red. 



The type of this species is a quite immature bird, as is evidenced by the shape of 

 the bill, which is long and thin, and by the rufous edges of the secondary-quills and 

 of some of the wing-coverts. 



The present collection contains two fully adult male examples : these differ from 

 the type in their larger size and greyer underparts, shading into whitish on the belly, 

 while the grey tips of the tail-feathers are much wider (1-3 inch) and much more 

 sharply denned. 



The adult female differs from the male. The upperparts are earth-brown, shading 

 into bronzy-rufous on the upper mantle, nape, and occiput, and there is no trace of 

 the grey, violet- or green-glossed, mantle which characterises the male ; the entire 

 underparts below the neck as well as the under tail-coverts are rich vinous. 



Another specimen (No. 2262), which has been marked " d " by Mr. Legge, has the 

 upperparts like those of the two adult males mentioned above, but the underparts 

 are rich vinous like those of the female. It is difficult to account for this inter- 

 mediate plumage, for the immature male type, though obviously a quite young bird, 

 does not differ much from the adult male in the colour of the underparts, which are 

 mostly grey suffused with vinous on the breast. 



A quite young female example has the upperparts earth-brown, as in the adult 

 female, but the quills and wing-coverts are margined with rufous and the feathers of 



