Before passing to notes on the spring migration, which has brought Great variety even to a casual observer, T must go back to the winter and mention the birds seen then, the winter months when we were fee bound the local birds were few, yet not so few as might have been expected. Sparrows. of course abound; 't shall not. digress here to contest' the harsh sitictures made upon them by some writers,. Magpies are resident and so are semic of the tits, the North China tit (Parus major, or minor). The latter, never having been tempted with such luxuries here before, took six weeks to discover and enjoy the delights of half-coconut which T put out for them in quite a suitable place not twenty yards from where one of them was singing when T fixed it up. A. solitary Daurlan redstart could te seen now and then throughout the winter, Some crows or rooks flew over at intervals during the late winter and spring, some with white on their necks but not enough mark them clearly as collared crows. One afternoon in February I saw a couple of magnificent swans floating gracefully on the still sea quite near the shore of one of the beaches to the east. Most of the sea was covered with ice so that they and the ducks had to occupy what open patches they could find. "But they were not at all shy. At the same time there were small flocks of some kind of shore-bied, possibly Kentish plover; I falled end of May a dead bird was found which tallied exactly with the description of this yellow-breasted bunting or rice bird. This year on May Day for a few moments T had a very close view of a solitary specimen that Tooked very much like the same, and ten days ago another dead on' was picked up, which also agrees entirely with the description by La Touche, Cuckoos Round Chefoo have often wondered about cuckoos here, never having Neard a call like the well-known English one till a few days ago. But there are two fertile valleys just south of the eastern part of this port where there are evidently cuckoos to be found. One bright day, early in May a few of us went out to the farther fof these for a pienle to a little farmstead and decrepit temple digni-fled by the name of the Black Dragon
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