March 5. aftez-Spent an hour this Sunday n in a delightful garden in the Hungjao district....a en where grassy glades give impses of unexpected backgrounds....the sort in fact, which makes me thoroughly homesick; but it also introduced me to a delightful lite ornithological problem which 1 an a problem which sure I have now solved al was not made too easy by the old authentic. who made fine distinctions between the small Owls under such names as Scops torquatus an Scops stictonotus, whereas these birds are now nown under various names beginning with t twenty or more of these Temperature at Yesterday Min. 43.9 Max. 522 Same date, 1938 Min. 911 Max. 342
Siccawei's Report St: te on the m ug of the 6th:—Anticyclone over northern Japan.
Depression over Mongolia. Another depression crosses the Eastern fea cast-north-eastward. Pressure slowly rising over Central China. Variable winds in China. ening cyclonic circulation over the Eastern Fine weather in the north, Overcast with driz zle at times in the Lower Yangtze Valley.
Overcast and fogey along the Coast to the south f the Yangtze Valley.
State on the morning of the 7th:—Moderate anticyclone over China. The depression to the south of Japan is continuing east-north-eastward. Another one is crossing the Sea of Japan cast-north-eastward.
Probabilities, 430 pin. yesterday:—Fine to cloudy weather with variable breezes in north China and over the Yellow Sea. Overcast with possible passing rain but progressively clearing up odorate northerly to easterly winds over Central China and our regions. Overcast to cloudy with local showers and modera! north-esterly winds over the Eastern Sea and Formosa.—Siccawei Observatory gus
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