Birds of Southern Cameroon. 
483 
Glareola melanoptera. 
Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 9. 
No. 3919. $. No. 4113. $. In immature plumage, 
wliicli is worn and old. These birds were killed at Bitje in 
September 1909 and 1910; the specimens already recorded 
(‘ Ibis/ l. c.) were also killed in September, and other birds 
of this species were seen in that month, in different years. 
Totanus octjropus. [Amalaka.] 
No. 3186. $ . Assobam, Dec. 1908, 
An example of Totanus hypoleucus was also killed, at the 
same place and time ; the latter was moulting. 
Himantornis HjEmatopus. [Nkulengu.] 
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 bird were examined when it was freshly 
killed, and found to be eutaxic. Air. Pycraft has kindly 
examined another specimen, a dried skin, and found the 
wing eutaxic. In his article on u Tlie so-called ‘Aquin- 
cubitalism 5 in the Bird’s Wing” (J. Linn. Soc. xxvii.) the 
u Balli ” are placed in the list of “ large groups every 
individual member of which, so far as is known, has diasta- 
taxic wings 5 ’ (p. 247). 
Gallinula angulata. 
Beichenow, V. A. i. p. 295. 
No. 3747. $ imm. Bitye, B. Ja, June 1909. Iris 
yellowish brown ; bill dull yellow, blackish on culmen. 
This specimen resembles a somewhat 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 Sclater’s Gallinula pumila 
and a number of specimens like it; these seem to be adult 
females, and not young birds, as Beichenow states G. pumila 
to have been. All have the under side light grey, and the 
long feathers about the vent, lying among the white under 
tail-coverts, black, as in the adult male. The young birds 
