630 Mr. J. D. D. La Touche— Field-Notes on 



E. personata mognirostris Hartert,V6g. pal. Fauna, i. p. 58. 



A Masked Hawfinch seen by me in the possession of a 

 native at Chinkiang had, according to its owner, been taken 

 in the locality. 



80. Chloris sinica (L.). 



Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 353 ; La Touche & Rickett, Ibis, 

 1905, p. 44. 



A common resident. Specimens obtained at Chinkiang 

 appear to be more brilliantly coloured than Fohkien birds. 



The Chinese Greenfinch breeds at Chinkiang among the 

 pine-woods on the hills. Two nests which I found were 

 placed on small pines right in the centre of the foliage. 

 One of these, taken on May 12, 1901, contained four much- 

 incubated eggs, which are pure white, one having a few 

 pale yellowish brown specks and the others a very few faint 

 yellowish grey specks. One measures 070 X 0*53" and the 

 others 0'68x0 - 50". On the same day a native gave me 

 a nest with one egg coloured as described by Rickett and 

 myself in our paper on Fohkien eggs and nests. It measures 

 0*73 x 0-51". Two years afterwards, on May 11, I found 

 the second nest, which also contained white eggs. As 

 there were only two of them, I left it, and, two days later, 

 sent a man to take it. He brought me back the nest 

 with three eggs. One of these, of a long narrow ovate 

 shape and measuring 075x0'50", is pure white with a few 

 very faint yellowish specks on the larger end, another is 

 ovate (0'70x0"52") and has a few similar markings on a 

 white ground, and the third, also ovate (0"73 xO*55"), is 

 lightly speckled on the larger end with rather pale burnt- 

 sienna. The three nests obtained are quite similar in make 

 and size to those from Foochow, and, as I myself saw the 

 parent birds on the nests containing the white eggs, there is 

 no fear of any mistake having been made. The eggs of the 

 Chinese Greenfinch are therefore of two types : a. Pale 

 green, speckled with black and red ; b. White, speckled with 

 pale reddish or pale yellowish brown. Both styles occur at 

 Chinkiang, while at Foochow the first type only has been 

 obtained as yet. 



