4.20 Dr. R. B. Sharpe on Birds 
obtained about Efulen. It usually flies and perches high, 
making a whistling noise with its wings as it passes. It 
comes to the ground to feed, however, and lives in part upon 
what it finds in the gardens. All of my specimens have 
been obtained with a gun, as this bird avoids snares and 
perches too high for the bow. It makes a guttural noise 
like that made by tame Pigeons. 
Specimens shot in February were breeding.—G., L. B. | 
64. TYMPANISTRIA TYMPANISTRIA. 
Tympanistria tympanistria (Temm. & Knip) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 
1904, p. 94. 
No. 1890. ¢ juv. River Ja, Feb. 3, 1906. 
[ This little Dove, called, like several other species, “ Odu,” 
lives about the gardens, which furnish it with its food, but 
it keeps pretty well hidden. My specimens have generally 
been snared.—G. L. B. ] 
65. CHALCOPELIA AFRA. 
Chalcopelia afra (Linn.) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 94. 
[This “‘Odu” is the commonest species, or at least the 
one most often seen, coming even into the village street to 
pick up food. It is shot by the boys with their bows and 
little palm-stalk arrows.—G. L. B. | 
66. CHALCOPELIA BREHMERI. 
Chalcopelia brehmeri (Hartl.) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 95. 
Nos. 1169, 1171. 9 g ad. River Ja, Dec. 20, 1905. 
No. 1821. ? ad. River Ja, July 1, 1906. 
No. 2037. @ ad. Bitye, River Ja, Nov. 2, 1906. 
All the females have the wing-spots decidedly tinged with 
green. 
[This is called, in distinction, “ Odu-mefan ” ; “ mefan” 
meaning “the forest.” It lives upon seeds and insects 
picked up from the ground in the forest. Many of my 
specimens have been obtained by snares baited with 
termites. Specimens obtained in December were breeding ; 
two obtained in June were not. A female was shot on the 
nest in the Zima Country by my boys.—G. L. B. ] 
