488 
Mr. G. L. Bates on the 
white, like the others, 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 atondok tree in the ekotok, 
which was, however, as yet without eggs. The call-notes 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 <e Mourning Dove ” of my boyhood in Illinois, 
which I suppose was Zenaidura carolinensis. They are a 
series of mournful notes, which begin with some energy and 
die away, 
IIaplopelia plumbescens. 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 95 (January) ; Grant, Trans. Zool. 
Soc. xix. p. 448 (1910). 
Haplopelia seimundi Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. xiv. p. 93 
(June, 1904). 
? Aplopelia tessmanni Reichenow, Orn. Monatsb. 1909, 
p. 87. 
No. 3366. 3 imm. Assobam, R. Bumba, Jan. 1909. 
Nos. 2774 and 4359. 3 ad. Bitye, R. Ja. 
No. 4446. $ breeding. Bitye, R. Ja, Oct. 1910. 
Iris 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.plumbescens, which I got at Efulen. 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 always to be found near a stream of 
