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This green Fruit Pigeon was abundant at Settra Kru and 

 common at Axim, where it nests on Saiabi Island.— 

 W. P. L.] 



FllANCOLINUS BICALCARATUS (Liuu.). 



Francolinus bicalcaratus Reich, i. p. 482. 



a. ?. Nanna Kru. 3rd Jan., 1911. (No. 277.) 



b. S • Settra Kru. 15th Jan., 1911. (No. 379.) 



c. S • Man-of-War Bay, Sierra Leoue. 2nd Feb., 1911. 

 (No. 440.) 



Iris brown ; bill greenish yellow, ridge of culmen black ; 

 feet dirty yellow. 



Total length in the flesh 13:^j inches ; expanse 22 inches. 



[Francolins were common along the Kru coast and also 

 in the cassava fields at Sierra Leone, where I have put up 

 as many as eight in a covey. — W. P. L.] 



APPENDIX. 



Description of Ichabo Island. By W. P. Lowe. 



This island, almost unknown sixty odd years ago, lies off 

 the coast of German South- \Yest Africa, and is two thirds of 

 a mile from the mainland. It is about 30 ft. high at the 

 beacon, and consists of granite, quartz, shale and stone. 

 In circumference it is rather less than a mile, while it 

 is the most valuable of the various guano islands owned 

 and worked by the Government of United South Africa. 

 Through the kindness of Captain Hardy, R.N., of H.M.S. 

 ' Mutine,' I was able to land on the 3rd of December, 1910, 

 at this interesting spot, and with the permission of the 

 Government officials to collect such specimens of birds and 

 eggs as I desired for the British Museum of Natural 

 History. 



About 10.30 a.m. we sighted a white spot, and as we drew 

 nearer perceived that it was unmistakably the island covered 

 with Gannets. Apart from the island being literally a mass 

 of birds, the air and water seemed alive with them in every 

 direction : in fact, the only open space was around the 



