1920.] Birds of North-Eust Chihli, 905 



tlieinselves. Tlicy were very tame and interesting little 

 birds, hut only one kept fairly healtliy. 1 released this one 

 on the loth of July as he was impatient of captivity and Hew 

 well. Unfortunately, there was a heavy storm that night 

 and he was killed by the rain. 



The Pale Grey-headed Woodpecker is a common bird in 

 the mountains of the Liautung Peninsula, where I obtained 

 specimens in February, 1890. 



The birds recorded by me from Chiukiang (Iljis, 1907, p. 2) 

 as Gecinas canus and pale-coloured G. gaerini are, I find 

 after com[)arisou with specimens in theTring Museum, P. c. 

 zltmiterjiianni Keichenow, a form described from Shantung 

 in 1903 (Orn. Monatsber. 1903, p. 86). This subspecies 

 extends trom Peking to the Lower Yangtse and is inter- 

 mediate between P . jessoensis and P. giierini. 



139. Hypopiciis hyperythrus subrufinus Cab. & Heine. 



Ht/pop icHs po/iujjsis D. & 0. p. 51 ; La T. p. 570. 



The Brown-bellied Woodpecker is a common migrant iu 

 north-east Chihii. I have seen it both in spring and in autumn 

 at the port itself. It passes in spring from about the 10th to 

 the last week in May, and again from the end of August to 

 about the middle of September or even later. Nearly all the 

 birds obtained or seen by me during the autunni passage 

 were young birds of the year, with the remains of the spotted 

 nestling plumage on the head, neck, and breast. The birds 

 captured in spring are all in adult dress with more or less 

 light-coloured under jiarts. The females appear to elude 

 observation more than the males. 1 have only three from 

 north-eastern Chihii, all shot in spring. The adult male has 

 the under parts of a deep golden bufi; or very light yellowish 

 brown ; the iris is crimson, the upper mandible is green and 

 the under mandible yellow. The adult female has the under 

 parts and the under mandible similarly coloured. Five 

 young males obtained here and dated 4-8 September have 

 the under parts deep umber-brown, darkest and tiullest 

 in the \oungest bird the under parts becoming lighter in the 

 older birds. TMie white s])ots ami bars of the upper parts are 



