Birds of Southern Cameroon. 483 



GlAREOLA MliLANOPTERA. 



Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 9. 



No. 3919. S' ^o. 4113. S- I» immature plumage, 

 wliicli is worn and old. These birds were killed at Bitye in 

 September 1909 and 1910; the specimens already recorded 

 (' Ibis/ I. c.) were also killed in September, and other birds 

 of this species were seen in that month, in different years. 



ToTANUS ocTiRorus. [ /Vmalaka,] 

 No. 3186. ? . Assobam, Dec. 190S„ 



An example o£ Totanus hypoJeucus was also killed, at the 

 same place and time ; the latter was moulting. 



HiMANTORNIS H.EMATOPUS. [NkulcUgU.] 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 421. 



No. 4401 was killed in a dead-fall trap placed in the 

 forest, near a stream, for catching small animals. 



The wings of this bii^d were examined when it was freshly 

 killecl_, and found to be eutaxic. ]\Ir. Pycraft has kindly 

 examined another specimen, a dried skin, and found the 

 wing eutaxic. In his article on ''The so-called 'Aquin- 

 cubitalisra' in the Bird's "Wing^^ (J. Linn. Soc. xxvii.) the 

 " Ralli "" are placed in the list of " large groups every 

 individual member of which, so far as is known, has diasta- 

 taxic wings" (p. 247). 



Gallinula angulata. 



Reichenow, V. A. i. p. 295. 



No. 3747. ? imm. Bitye, R. Ja, June 1909. Iris 

 yellowish brown ; bill dull yellow, blackish on culmen. 



This specimen resembles a somewluit younger bird in the 

 British Museum collection, which has the black down still 

 attached to the tips of some of its feathers. Neither of these 

 examples resembles the type of Sclatcr's Gallinula pumila 

 and a number of specimens like it; these seem to be adult 

 females, and not young birds, as Reichenow states G. piunila 

 to have been. All have the under side light grey, and the 

 long feathers about the vent, lying among the Avhite under 

 tail-coverts^ black, as in the adult male. The young birds 



