simple, bmp's aren't on the list of allowed extensions; these are:
gif|png|jpg|jpeg

You could add to this, but you should force your users to convert to one of the ones allowed (as bmp's aren't compressed in any way, and a user could just not care that their 800x600 image can be several mb large)

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