1920.] Birds of North-East Chihli. 907 



L. Yangtse birds. — Wing-spots generally large and broad; scapulars 

 as a rule with some white spots ; side rectrices with generally 

 more white than black. 



Wing, S 5-15-.5-21 in. ; $ 4-95-5-12 in. A v. 5-06 in. 



N.E. Chihli birds, D. luciani (Malh.). — Wing-spots large, forming 

 on tlie inner secondaries complete or almost complete white 

 bars ; scapulars often spotted with white, the white in some 

 birds being extensive ; side rectrices witli narrow and often 

 incomplete black bars. 



Wing, S 5-00-5-22 in. Av. 5-14 in. $ 5-05-5-20 in. 

 Av. o'12 in. 



Two male and one female examples from northern Anhwei, 

 collected by the late Father Perrin, S.J., are somewhat 

 intermediate between the Yangtse and northern birds. They 

 have spotted scapnlars and very broad alar spots, these 

 forming bars across the innermost secondaries of the female 

 example which, moreover, has the rump barred with white. 

 The side rectrices are narrowly barred witii black. For 

 remarks on this veiy variable bird, see Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 

 1863, p. 88, and Seebohm, Ibis, 1883, pp. 23-J., and Ibis, 

 1891, [). 376. The reniaiks on the variability of this Wood- 

 pecker in ' Les Oiseaux de la Chine ' are certainly not borne 

 out by my large series. The diiferences are to a great 

 extent geographical. As in the Green Woodpeckers, the 

 birds from Fohkien differ least among themselves, and those 

 from the Yangtse and northern China are the most variable. 

 The birds taken at Chinwangtao often grade into D. major 

 japonemis. A female from this locality has the wings 

 irregularly marked with chestnut; another has traces of 

 chestnut on the same |)art.s. 



142. lyngipicus scintilliceps fSwinhoe). 



Ynnffipicus scintilliceps D. & O. p. 50. 



The Spark-headed Woodpecker is found in the wooded 

 districts north of Chinwangtao, but does not appear to be 

 common. 



The Fohkien and Forniosan race of this Woodpecker is 

 quite distinct. The Yangtse and Chihli birds have rather 

 more white on the ba(!k and the wing-spots are larger. The 

 streaks of the under parts are much more |)rouounced in the 

 southern birds. The Yangtse and Chihli birds have the 



