iH re eh Ls: 
NINTH SERIES. 
No. I. JANUARY 1907. 
I.—Field-Notes on the Birds of Chinkiang, Lower Yangtse 
Basin—Part III.* By J. D. D. La Toucus, C.M.Z.S., 
MoE .O.U, 
116. Denprocorus caBanist Malh. 
Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 482. 
A common resident species, breeding in April and May. 
Nearly all the adults obtained by me at Chinkiang shew 
some spots of white on the scapulars, and all have a more 
or less white edging to the feathers of the lower back. The 
spots on the wings and the white patch on the upper wing- 
coverts are much larger than in Fohkien examples of this 
Woodpecker. The three outer pairs of rectrices are generally 
somewhat narrowly barred (in fact, often only spotted) with 
black. A young bird shot on June 10 has the longest 
scapulars tipped with white and the primaries broadly tipped 
with the same colour. 
I have been unable as yet to secure any authentic eggs. 
Some fragments were taken on May 13 from a nest which 
contained young birds, and I have one egg, found on 
the ground on May 17 under some trees riddled with Wood- 
peckers’ holes, which I can only refer to this species. It is 
* Continued from ‘ The Ibis,’ 1906, p. 641. 
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