376 Mr. H. Seebohm on Birds 



'^ ^Ethopyga dabryi. 



Mr. Pratt's collection contains a male of this pretty little 

 Sun-bird, the type of which was collected on the hills above 

 Ta-chien-lu by Monseigneur Chauveau, and was sent by him 

 to M. Dabry, after whom it was named [cf. Sclater, Ibis, 1870^ 

 p. 296). 



It was got at Ta-chien-lu, where it is said to come every 

 year when a certain plant is in flower about May, but as 

 soon as the flower is over to leave and breed in some other 

 locality. 



PlCUS CABANISI. 



There is an example of this species in the collection. 

 There is very little white on the tertials, and consequently 

 it must be referred to the race which is most abundant in 

 South China, and which, as it was described first, must be 

 regarded as the typical race. In North China a form occurs 

 which diff'ers from Picus cabanisi in the same manner that 

 Picus major japonicus differs from typical Picus major. In 

 both cases the typical forms have little or no white on the 

 tertials, whilst in the allied races these feathers have broad 

 white bais across them. In both cases the two forms 

 completely intergrade. 



PiCOIDES FUNEBRIS. 



An example of this species, which is otherwise only known 

 from the type in the Paris Museum, is perhaps the most 

 interesting bird in the collection ; it is an adult male. The 

 type is a young male, and was obtained by I'Abbe David at 

 Moupin. The adult difi'ers from the young in having the 

 brown on the underparts replaced by black, with here and 

 there a short streak of white in it. 



The Three-toed Woodpecker ranges from Scandinavia to 

 Kamtschatka, extending north of the Arctic Circle in Siberia 

 and down to the Italian Alps in Europe and to Turkestan and 

 Manchuria in Asia, Like many other birds of which the 

 breeding-range extends across the Palsearctic Kegion, it is 

 represented by a more or less central pale race where the 

 mean temperature during the moulting-season is lowest, and 



