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On the 28th April following another clntch of five eggs 

 was taken from a nest placed on a bamboo at a height of 

 about 20 feet from the ground. These eggs, which were 

 very slightly incubated, have a lighter ground-colour than 

 the above, one egg markedly so. The spots are much more 

 numerous and much smaller. Three of them have a rough 

 ring of reddish-grey underlying blotches under the reddish- 

 brown spots, which are larger there than on the rest of the 

 egg. In the fifth and light-coloured egg this ring is very 

 slight, and the surface and underlying markings are small, 

 there being only three or four underlying blotches. They 

 are all broader eggs, with a tendency to being oval, except 

 one, which is a broad ovate. They measure 1*22 x 0'95, 

 1-21 X 0-93, 1-20 X 0-96, and M8x0-93 (two eggs) inch. 

 We did not take the nest, which appeared to be built in the 

 usual style, and was a slight structure, composed of thin 

 twigs and tendrils. 



130. CvpsELus PACiFicus Lath. 



A party of these was seen near Kuatun on the 23rd April, 

 1898, by our collectors, wlio shot two examples. 



131. Caprimulgus jotaka T. & S. 



This Goatsucker comes to tlie Kuatun Mountains for the 

 breeding-season. Our collectors brought back from Kuatun 

 in 1897 two eggs, found on the ground by a native on the 

 21st May, which are, no doubt, the eggs of this species. 

 One of these is a nearly perfect oval. It is white, marbled 

 with brownish grey and light blue-grey, the former being 

 surface-marks and the latter underlying. It measures 

 126 X 093 inch. The shell is fairly smooth and has a 

 decided gloss. 



132. Picus CABANisi Malh. 



One shot on Wu Yi Shan on the 29th March, 1898. We 

 have none from Kuatun, but it is abundant all over the 

 lower wooded hills of Fohkien. 



133. Picus insularis Gould. 



This handsome Woodpecker is found in the forests about 



