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Nucifraga caryocatactes macrorhynchos (BREHM). Large-billed Nutcracker. 
Nucifraga macrorhynchos BREHM: Lehrb. Europ. Végel, 1, 1823 103 (Germany: a straggler). 
Observed only in the wildest part of the Ts’in-lings (above 4,000 feet, 1,200 meters, 
elevation) near the divide. Here considerable forests still remain and these harbor birds 
which have been driven away from the other parts of the mountains. 
STURNIDZ. 
Spodiopsar cineraceus (TEMMINCK). 
Sturnus cineraceus TEMMINCK: PI. Col., 1, 1832, 556 (Japan). 
This is a common associate of the jays and magpies, in the village groves and orchards 
from Shan-tung to Shan-si and the Wei valley. In the Ts’in-lings it is much less common 
and south of them it was not observed at all. In October large flocks were feeding upon 
berries which grow on certain trees on the plain of the Huang-ho. 
ZEthiopsar cristatellus (LINN&%uUS). 
Gracula cristatella LINNEuS: Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 109 (China). 
A familiar species in the southern Ts’in-lings and the valley of the Han. It lives 
about the farm-houses and is often seen hopping over the half-flooded rice-fields, like a 
magpie. The only call heard at this season is a squealing sound. 
ZOSTEROPIDZ. 
Zosterops simplex SwINHOE. Swinhoe’s Silver-eye. 
Zosterops simplex SWINHOE: Ibis 1861, 331 (Southern China). 
This little greenlet is rather common in the flowering trees and bamboo thickets, 
along the tributaries of the Han river in Shen-si during May. 
Zosterops erythropleura SWINHOE. Chinese Silver-eye. 
Zosterops erythropleura SWINHOE: Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1863, 204 (Shanghai, China). 
Offered for sale in the bird market at Tien-tsin. The native name for it is ‘‘ Pai-yeh,” 
which means ‘‘white cheek.”’ 
FRINGILLIDZE. 
Fringilla montifringilla LINN&us. Brambling. 
Fringilla monttfringilla LINN&US: Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 179 (Sweden). 
Apparently this species does not winter in the northern provinces. We found it 
common in Shan-tung, in October and November, but saw none thereafter until they 
appeared in the Wei-ho valley in March. In Shan-tung they frequented the cedar groves 
about graveyards and upon the slopes of the T’ai-shan. Here numbers of them are 
caught with bird-lime and are then sold as cage-birds. To the bird-catchers it is known as 
‘‘Hu-pieh” (Tiger bird). 
(?) Spinus spinus (LINNAuUS). Siskin. 
Fringilla spinus LINN&US: Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 181 (Sweden). 
Siskins, which appear to be of this species, were found on the T’ai-shan and neighboring 
mountains, in company with the last-named species. 
Chloris sinica (LINN&US). Chinese Greenfinch. 
Fringilla sinica LINN&US: Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 321 (China). 
The greenfinch, or ‘‘Huang-ch’iau”’ (yellow bird), we saw frequently in the spring, on 
the road from central Shan-si to southern Shen-si. None were observed, however, in the 
more rugged portions of the Ts’in-ling mountains. The flight of this bird is like that of 
the American goldfinch, but the chirp is sharp and metallic. 
Specimen No. 6033. Collected March 5, 1904, in the hills north of T’ai-yuan, Shan-si, 
