674 Staff-Surgeon K. H. Jones on Birds 



scattered feathers to tell a melancholy story of death and 

 destruction wrought by the predatory rodents. 



One new nest was observed on June IGth ; it was a small 

 affair of grass and seaweed, all glued together by some 

 gelatinous material produced b}" the bird^ and so placed in a 

 cleft of the rock that the hen bird could only sit, so to 

 speak, in a '^fore and aft " position. 



The latest date on which these birds were seen was 

 September 23rd at North-East Promontory, by which time, 

 however, nearly all had gone south. 



Swiuhoe obtained the eggs of this species at Chefoo. 



Caprimulgus jotaka. 



This Goatsucker occurs on migration, and was noticed on 

 many occasions at the end of August and in the beginning 

 of September. When it first arrives it will sometimes 

 hawk over the sand-flats in broad daxlight and close to the 

 sea-shore. 



Dendrocopus cabaxisi. 



This Spotted Woodpecker was only met with about Wei 

 Hai Wei on one occasion, on the mainland, towards 

 Chefoo. This was on July 1st, and the only specimen 

 obtained was a male of the year. Nesting-holes, pre- 

 sumably of this bird, were noticed in some large willow trees 

 at the place where the bird was obtained. 



Hypopicus polyopsis. 



This handsome little Woodpecker occurs about Wei Hai 

 Wei at the end of August and the beginning of September, 

 when on its southward migration. A specimen flew on board 

 H.M.S. ' Waterwitch,' whilst surveying in the Gulf of 

 Pechili to the north of Wei Hai Wei, on September lltli. 



At the time of year specified above there oozes from the 

 oak trees [Quercus mongolicus) resinous matter, which attracts 

 numerous insects, and in the pursuit of these Hypopicus 

 polyopsis becomes so engrossed that it can be obtained with 

 very little trouble. All the birds were seen in pairs or in 

 parties of three, and all those obtained were immature males. 



