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Mr. D. A. Bannerman on rare Birds [Ibis, 
Mr. Bates has now obtained six more specimens of this 
species from Bitye, River Ja. 
Mesopicus xantholophus Hargitt. 
Mesopicus elliotti Cassin. 
Dendromus caroli (Malh.). 
Dendromns permistus Reichw. 
Dendropicus gabonensis (Verr.). 
Mr. Bates has sent further specimens of all these Wood¬ 
peckers from Bitye. 
lynx torquilla torquilla. 
lynx torquilla Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 112— 
Type locality: Sweden. 
I record a specimen shot by Mr. Bates at Bitye, River Ja, 
on the 19th of November, 1913, as we have far too little 
data of European migrants in West Africa. It is unfor¬ 
tunate that collectors who must often have the opportunity 
of procuring European birds on passage entirely ignore these 
in favour of local species whose range is often much better 
known. It is a fact that several European birds pass 
regularly through the Canary Islands in spring and autumn, 
which have never been taken in* Africa south of that 
latitude. 
Indicator conirostris conirostris *. 
. Melignothes conirostris Cassin, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1856, 
p. 156—Type locality : Moonda, Gaboon. 
Indicator c. conirostris C. Grant, Ibis, 1915, p. 434; 
Bannerman, t. c. p. 489 [Cameroon Mt.]. 
All the examples of this species, eight in number, have 
been procured by Mr. Bates on the River Ja. He has now 
forwarded another pair from the same locality. 
The wings in seven males measure 88-92 mm.; in three 
females, 79, 85, 85 mm. 
The two specimens from the Gold Coast and Eantee, men¬ 
tioned under I. conirostris in the Catalogue of Birds in the 
* The notes on the species of the genera Indicator , Melignomon, 
and Prodotiscus were written by Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant in 1917. 
