2 Mr. J. D. D. La Touche—Field- Notes on 
but slightly glossy, the texture of the shell resembling that 
of the fragments previously obtained. It is rather narrowly 
ovate and measures 1:07x0°80". This egg is quite unin- 
jured, save for two tiny punctures. As it is unlikely that it 
had been laid on the ground, it had probably been carried 
off by a rat, which had dropped it on being disturbed by 
our approach. 
117. Iyneiricus scinTILLIcEPs (Swinhoe). 
Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 482. 
The Spark-headed Woodpecker is a resident with us, but 
is not so common as the Green and Pied species. I have 
seen it all the year round on the plain, but have not been 
able to procure any eggs. Specimens shot at Chinkiang 
shew more white than those from Fohkien, and the stripes 
on the under parts are slightly narrower. 
118. Gecinus canus (L.). 
I shot an adult female on November 30, 1902. 
This district is, no doubt, the southernmost limit of this 
Woodpecker in Eastern China. 
119. Gecinus cuERINI (Malh.). 
Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 482. 
This is the commonest Woodpecker about Chinkiang. It 
breeds in April, but I have never succeeded in finding a nest- 
hole with eggs. 
On placing a series of Fohkien Green Woodpeckers side by 
side with a series of G. guerini shot at Chinkiang, it appears 
evident that the Fohkien bird is a well-marked and _ suffi- 
ciently constant form of G. guerint (Malh.), and that it may 
well stand as Gecinus tancola Gould. ‘To my mind there is 
no more reason for uniting G. tancola Gould with G. guerini 
Malh. than there would be for suppressing G. guerint and 
calling it G. canus, or for uniting the Green Woodpecker of 
Fohkien with G. occipitulis. ‘These four forms intergrade 
almost completely. I have a Green Woodpecker from 
Fohkien which I could hardly distinguish from specimens of 
G. occipitalis at the British Museum, and I| have also 
specimens of G. querint from Chinkiapg which can only 
