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Birds of Manchuria. 
decidedly yellowish lower mandible and pure black nasal 
plumes, while there is a young hyperythrus in the British 
Museum from the N.W. Himalayas with the bill almost 
entirely black and the nasal plumes buff, tipped with black. 
I believe the only constant difference between these two 
closely-allied Woodpeckers is the colour of the under parts. 
This is bright rufous-chestnut in the Indian bird and brown 
to sooty-brown in the Chinese form. In the latter the black 
on the back is perhaps purer and more intense than in H. hyp¬ 
erythrus. This being the case, all the birds from the Styan 
collection (now in the British Museum) are H. poliopsis, and 
its range would therefore extend from Yun-nan and N.W. 
Sechuen across North China into South Manchuria. But 
all my skins are unusually dusky in shade, and perhaps the 
Manchurian bird may ultimately prove to be subspecifically 
distinct, in which event I would suggest the name manchu - 
ricus. Bianchi describes Captain Karpow's specimen from 
Yingtzu as having the under parts “ blackish 33 {tom. cit .). 
The only thing that deters me from describing the 
Manchurian bird at once is the fact that immature examples 
are always darker and more dingy than the adults, but, on 
the other hand, young birds may be easily recognised by the 
lighter shade of the crimson crown and their dusky throat, 
neck, and breast, profusely mottled with large cream-coloured 
spots. In one of my specimens the under surface is blackish- 
brown and probably resembles that collected by Capt. 
Karpow. The bill seems to be variable : the culmen of an 
adult male measures 1*16 in. ; that of one of the young birds 
a fraction under 1 in. 
95. Gecinus canus (Gm.). Grey-headed Green Wood¬ 
pecker. 
Dresser, p. 456. 
c, b. £ $ . Shing-king. June 6, 1886. 
c. Chang-tsai. ( E. J.) 
96. Iynx torquilla (Linn.!. Wryneck. 
Tacz. p. 727 ; Dresser, p. 457. 
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