Birds of Gambia. 13 



Range. West Africa, Senegambia to Angola; Equatorial 

 Africa. {H.L.) 



These three nieinbers of the genus Dendropicus are small 

 mottled olive Woodpeckers, red naped in the males, but not in the 

 females. Length 4-^- to 5 inches. Our little Woodpecker 1 expect 

 is one of them. 



lyngipicus obsoletus. 



Range. North-east and West Africa. (H.L.) 



The markings of this species are more black and white and 

 it is altogether more like the European Smaller Spotted Wood- 

 pecker. I once shot a bird which 1 thought at the time was this 

 species, but 1 kept no particulars of it. 



Mesopicus goertan. 



Range. Senegal. [H.L.) 



M. poiocephalus 



Range. Senegambia to Angola. {H.L.) 



lynx torquilla. WRYNECK. 



Range. Europe, Asia, North-east Africa; West Africa (Sene- 

 gal). {H.L.) 



TJae Wryneck no doubt comes as far South as the Gambia 

 in winter, but I have never seen it here. 



To be continued. 



Nesting Notes for 1910. 



By Maurice Amsll;r, M.B. 



In the September issue of Bird Notes will be found 

 a few lines by our kindly but mistaken Editor, on breeding 

 successes in my uviaries. 1 hasten to take up my pen 

 to undeceive my fellow members, and to inform them that the 

 successes referred to should have been called failures. As a 

 matter of fact, Mr. Page must have misread my letter, and 

 has given me credit for broods reared, whereas I only wrote 

 of 7iests — a distinction with a great difference, as we all 

 know to our cost. 



My only noteworthy success was the rearing of one Eed- 

 whiskered Bulbul, of which full notes have appeared in the 

 Avicultural Magaziiie for December. This youngster |was 

 hatched in May, from the first clutch of four eggs, and was 

 fed entirely by the hen bird on gentles and mealworms, as long 

 as he was in the nest. When he flew, which he did on the 

 13th day ; the cock bird helped the hen in the arduous task, 



