488 Mr. G. L. Bates on the 



white, like the otliers, while a specimen from Sierra 

 Leone, agreeing with Reichenow's description and also with 

 Cassin's original description, has these rectrices uniform 

 slaty-grey. The three females, though all adult, differ in 

 the amount of grey on the forehead ; this looks as though 

 there is a tendency to attain the colouring of the male with 

 advancing age. 



All my specimens are breeding birds. One was from a 

 pair that had a nest in a small atonduk tree in the ekotok, 

 which was, however, as yet without eggs. The call-v.otes of 

 this Dove are entirely unlike those of any other species that 

 I have heard in Africa. They strongly reminded me of the 

 notes of the " Mourning Dove " of my boyhood in Illinois, 

 which I suppose was Zenaidara Caroline iisis. They are a 

 scries of mournful notes, which begin with some energy and 

 die away. 



Haplopelia plumbescens. 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 95 (January) ; Grant, Trans. Zool. 

 Soc. xix. p. 448 (1910). 



Hap/opelia seimundi Shai'pe, Bull. B. O. C. xiv. p. 93 

 (June, 1904). 



? AplopeUa iessmanni Reichenow, Orn. Monatsb. 1909, 

 p. 87. 



No. 3366. S imra* Assobam, R. Buraba, Jan. 1909. 



Nos. 2774 and 4359. S ad. Bitye, R. Ja. 



No. 4446. ? breeding. Bitye, R. Ja, Oct. 1910. 



Ii'is grey ; feet and margin of eyelids red ; bill and cere 

 black. Rectrices twelve in number ; wing diastataxic. 



The adult males are exactly like the type of H. seimundi, 

 and agree also with the description of H. tessmanni, from a 

 locality near where mine were collected. The immature 

 male, a browner bird with light feather edges, is like the 

 type of H.piumbescens, which I got at Efulcn. The adult 

 female is quite different from any of the males, being olive- 

 brown on the back and rusty umber-brown on the breast. 



This Dove seems alwavs to be found near a stream of 



