of the Genus Haplopelia. 7 



' Another species, apparently an adult female, was named 

 by Salvador! H. forhesi, from an unknown locality {vide 

 *Ibis/ 1904, p. 368). 



In the * Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club,' xiv. 

 1904, Sharpe described yet another species, from Ruwen- 

 zori, which is named H. jacksoni. 



Three years later, in 1907, Mr. Cr. L. Bates sent home a 

 bird which he had obtained on the River Ja in southern 

 Cameroon, close to the type-locality of H. plumbescens. 

 This bird, an adult grey-breasted male, proved to be identical 

 in every way with the type of U. seimttndi, described from 

 Fernando Po, and, as stated by Mr. Ogilvie-Grant (TraJis. 

 Zool. Soc. xix. 1910, p. 448), it was from that moment 

 considered that U. plumbescens and H. seimundi were 

 one and the same bird, the former name having priority. 



More recently, in 1909, Dr. Reichenovv described a bird 

 with a grey breast from Bebai, southern Cameroon, which 

 he named Aplopelia tessmmini. This bird has been shown 

 by Mr. G. L. Bates (' Ibis," 1911, p. 488) to be synonymous 

 with H. plumbescens Sharpe. 



In the same year, 1909, Boyd Alexander was engaged in 

 his last expedition to the islands in the Gulf of Guinea, and 

 afterwards commenced his journey on the mainland, which 

 unhappily ended so fatally. 



I have just completed working out the bird-collections 

 which he obtained, and, when dealing with the specimens 

 .from Cameroon Mountain, I was astonished to find that he 

 had secured a male bird identical in every way with H. plum- 

 bescens ; but shot at the same place within a few days were 

 three brown-coloured females from the type-locality of 

 H. inornata agreeing with the description of that bird, and 

 obviously being the females of the grey-breasted male 

 bird which I had identified as H. plumbescens. But, on 

 comparing these female examples with the female of 

 H. plumbescens, I noticed that the under tail-coverts were 

 cinnamon-colour, whereas in the hen of H. plumbescens they 

 are white ! 



