The Birds of Gambia. 
149 
Common Saffron Finches are sitting, and a pair of Senegai. 
Doves have reared fonr young, and are now incubating their 
third clutch of eggs. 
In the next aviary a pair of Ringed Finches are incubat- 
ing five eggs in a rush basket. 
One pair of Cuban Finches built in a large laurel, laying 
four eggs, white spotted with light brown, and on the top of 
their nest a pair of Diamond Doves laid and reared one young 
without appearing to disturb the occupants of the ground floor, 
but, like so many others this season, all the Cuban's eggs were 
infertile. They built a second nest in a bush and the hen is now 
incubating another clutch of four eggs ; they are, I think, 
quite the most quarrelsome of any of the small birds, and, a 
pair of Dusky Finches got so persecuted by the cock Cuba that 
the former have had to be removed. 
A hen Cuba mated to a cock OuvE Finch has laid, but 
again the eggs proved infertile. 
Two pairs of Black-Cheeked Lovebirds went to nest 
early in the year, in large cages in the birdroom and were seldom 
seen for the best part of six weeks. I then thought it advisable 
to at last inspect the interior of their nests, which consisted 
solely of spray millet stalks, carried into an apple log; on 
opening the logs they were both found to contain eggs, with 
dead chicks in the shell about just due to hatch, and also a 
second clutch of eggs just laid. Both pairs were then turned 
out of doors and are now busy incubating. 
(To be coiiiiiuied ) . 
^Ibc BuDs of Gambia. 
By F:. Hopkinson, D.S.O., M.A., M.B. 
{Conlinued from page 127). 
MOTACILLIIX^. 
Molacilla alba. The WHITE WAGTAIL. 
Ranjje. Europe iiiui .A.sia; Africa as {ax as the Equator from October 
to May. {Sh.) 
This is the couiiiiou bhick ami while Wagtail of the Gambia. They 
are very numerous in Balhurst from October to the end of April, and are to 
be frequently met with further inland during these months, though never in 
