674 Staff-Surgeon K. H. Jones on Birds 
scattered feathers to tell a melancholy story of death and 
destruction wrought by the predatory rodents. 
One new nest was observed on June 16th; it was a small 
affair of grass and seaweed, all glued together by some 
gelatinous material produced by the bird, and so placed in a 
cleft of the rock that the hen bird could only sit, so to 
speak, in a “fore and aft ” position. 
The latest date on which these birds were seen was 
September 23rd at North-East Promontory, by which time, 
however, nearly all had gone south. 
Swinhoe obtained the eggs of this species at Chefoo. 
Caprimulgus jotaka. 
This Goatsucker occurs on migration, and was noticed on 
many occasions at the end of August and in the beginning 
of September. When it first arrives it will sometimes 
hawk over the sand-flats in broad daylight and close to the 
sea-shore. 
Dendrocopus cabanisi. 
This Spotted Woodpecker was only met with about Wei 
Hai Wei on one occasion, on the mainland, towards 
Chefoo. This was on July 1st, and the only specimen 
obtained was a male of the year. Nesting-holes, pre¬ 
sumably of this bird, were noticed in some large willow trees 
at the place where the bird was obtained. 
Hypopicus polyopsis. 
This handsome little Woodpecker occurs about Wei Hai 
Wei at the end of August and the beginning of September^ 
-when on its southward migration. A specimen flew on board 
H.M.S. ‘ Waterwitch,’ whilst surveying in the Gulf of 
Pechili to the north of Wei Hai Wei, on September 11th. 
At the time of year specified above there oozes from the 
oak trees (Quercus mongolicus') resinous matter, which attracts 
numerous insects, and in the pursuit of these Hypopicus 
polyopsis becomes so engrossed that it can be obtained with 
very little trouble. All the birds were seen in pairs or in 
parties of three, and all those obtained were immature males. 
