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Birds of North-west Fohkien. 
the 28th April following another clutch of five eggs 
was taken from a nest placed on a bamboo at a height of 
about 20 feet from the ground. These eggs, which were 
very slightly incubated, have a lighter ground-colour than 
the above, one egg markedly so. The spots are much more 
numerous and much smaller. Three of them have a rough 
ring of reddish-grey underlying blotches under the reddish- 
brown spots, which are larger there than on the rest of the 
egg. In the fifth and light-coloured egg this ring is very 
slight, and the surface and underlying markings are small, 
there being only three or four underlying blotches. They 
are all broader eggs, with a tendency to being oval, except 
one, which is a broad ovate. They measure T22x0’95, 
1*21x0*93, 1*20 x 0 96, and 1*18x0*93 (two eggs) inch. 
We did not take the nest, which appeared to be built in the 
I usual style, and was a slight structure, composed of thin 
twigs and tendrils. 
-f 130. Cypselus pacificus Lath. 
A party of these was seen near Kuatun on the 23rd April, 
1898, by our collectors, who shot two examples. 
-f* 131. Caprimulgus jotaka T. & S. 
This Goatsucker comes to the Kuatun Mountains for the 
breeding-season. Our collectors brought back from Kuatun 
in 1897 two eggs, found on the ground by a native on the 
21st May, which are, no doubt, the eggs of this species. 
One of these is a nearly perfect oval. It is white, marbled 
with brownish grey and light blue-grey, the former being 
surface-marks and the latter underlying. It measures 
L26x0*93 inch. The shell is fairly smooth and has a 
decided gloss. 
+132. Picus cabanisi Malh. 
One shot on Wu Yi Shan on the 29th March, 1898. We 
have none from Kuatun, but it is abundant all over the 
lower wooded hills of Fohkien. 
-fl33, Picus insularis Gould. 
This handsome Woodpecker is found in the forests about 
