342 Mr. H. F. Witherby on a Collecting [IbiP, 



Dipper found in the north of Portugal, of which I have four 

 specimens kindly given to me by Mr. Tait and Senhor Lopes, 

 does not differ from the Cantabrian birds. 



fHirundo rustica. 



t Delichon urbica. 

 We saw a few Swallows passing over at Riaiio and a few 

 with House-Martins at Potes on 7 October, but the breeding- 

 birds had left before we arrived. 



fAlcedo attMs ispida L. 

 We saw one or two Kingfishers on the main streams at 

 Piano, Potes, and Panes. 



Picus viridis sharpei (Saunders) . 



Green Woodpeckers were fairly common, but very shy and 

 difficult to get. Three which I shot have the sides of the 

 neck and upper-breast not so grey as is often the ease. They 

 are, however, like the type specimen which came from near 

 Madrid. Unfortunately most of the specimens in the British 

 Museum have no date, but I fancy the greyness is produced 

 by wear, and probably the more green and less grey birds arc 

 freshly moulted autumn ones. Three autumn birds, which 

 Mr. Tait has sent me from north Portugal, agree with my 

 Cantabrian ones. The wings of a series of nine males 

 measure 157-164 mm. or about the same as P. v. virescens, 

 but the bills are rather smaller, measuring; in the males 41-46 

 and in eleven females 40-43 mm. against (^ 43-50, $ 43-48 

 in P, V. virescens. 



Dryolbates major hispanus (Schlliter). 



There were a few Great Spotted Woodpeckers in the 

 woods near Riano and Potes, but we did not notice the bird 

 at Panes. We obtained only two. These, and three others 

 which Mr. Tait has sent me from Portugal, have the tail- 

 feathers closely barred (thus showing less white than in 

 D. m. pinetorum), while the under-parts are dark, though 

 sometimes examples of pinetorum have equally brown under- 



