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Fireside Echoes--No. 3:
THE
I have mentioned three typos of, pheasants us it is extremely hurd to choose between them. I might add a fourth, the Golden Phea- sant but it is A rare visitar.. Between November, nod, March the beautiful Mandarin', Duck nests on the upper reaches of the Min River. Unfortunately It is greatly prized as a table-bird,
I have omitted Kingfishers on perhaps because they my list, are so common throughout the
· Their rightful place, province. to my mind, is among the hand some birds of Central Fukien with the constal belt between Cheking and Kwangtung, as I shall en- deavour to show,
BIRDS
weather
OF
By. Wm. M.S. Brand
FUKIEN
Pandit jehru doesn't like the Hoover .
Nature hors a vacuum, too.
Many a collection has been formed of butterflies, and metha caught in and about Foochow ninong which may be mentioned the Atlas Moth end the Death's Head, There appears to be two types of the latter commen
Apparely it is also one of the this district, one unusually large with the body running to 3 Inches Communi customs to take over and over in length by rich in any fleetshat are lying around.
D wing-span of breach, with
Now yot CM, now you don't close on 8 inches.
CM, C7
to
permitting, WILE
The handsomest birds in and monthly by special fishing-junk, about Foochow are definitely the and many is the time I have smaller types, such as, the Fire- received the most luscious oystors, Breasted Flower-Pecker the crabs, and really giant cray smallest bird of the province fah from these island friends, and the Fork-Talled Sub-Bird,
We experimented most success- clase relative. The latter takes
Humming-Bird The Humming-Bird Moth re- fully by rigging the junk with the place of the
preceding para- Hirohito'daughter la granted special tubs to hold this precious of the Americas, though I would ferred to in cargo alive for the three-day not care to say the Humming-Bird graph is a very beautiful creature the equivant of US$12,000 for.- Journey up to Foochow,
has not actually been seen in Foo- with rainbow coloration in soft her weddinexpenses, There WILE one thing these chow, for I do believe it has in pastel pinks and greens. It usually Marrying commoner or not, friends craved for (besides read- company with a very beautiful is seen at dusk hovering round the princesspparently has a yen Ing matter) and that was live tur- moth which is quite commori | jasinine or honey-suckle, or a pal far á king-si celebration. key to kill and dress for Yuletide. hereabouts, Junown as the Hum- of Easter Lilles, thrusting IA |
Into each Now, turkeys are reared annually ming-Bird Moth: There are also very long proboscis within a few miles of Foochow colonies of that friendly little chap bloom in turn. It does not seem
Silver-Eyes, City, so it was arranged to send known as
much to mind the presence of hunan out to them a roll of vire-netting, sought after by the Chloese as a beings: one can walk up to with
few inches of the
creaturn the requisite planking, six broody cage-bird and upon which they Chinese chickens, and
lavish the greatest care and atten- thus feeding without in any way tlan. This is the little green frightening (almost a) Wren with white round its eyes. It
-dozen-turkey's-egga,
three
•
The Comira forblus Reds in: Trieste to sike cigarettes froin Yugoslavia. ;j;
Snuff'a endh.
In Central Fuklen, that is to say, a line drawn from Nonping (Yeapingfu), in the Norili, to Lungyensien (Lungyenchow), in the South, the handsomest birde to be met with are not the soaring TWO PATHS
type of the provincial borders, nor Days of historic decision the equally large aquatic types found along the sea-coast, so my are coming upon us and half-list for this region-many tracts measures are a war. The knows to hill-tribes is mostly Successive onslaughts taught to do many many tricks a Robin in Foochow English playful as klin
are going by the of which, even to day, are only composed of Songsters, which frontiers of South East Asia
order aprenda'smaller, and much mare Intriguing as one and of the Western Union are
East and South East toward the alike involved in the con-
coastal-belt and the wanner clime of the Fukien-Kwangtung Border, So, for Central Fukten, I would mention: the Eastern Purple Heron the South Ching Eagle Owl; the South China. Jay the Golden, or Eastern Blacknoped Orlote: the Chinese Hair-Crested Drongo; the Fukien Sultan Tit:
West..
ferences now going on in the The strategists tell us that there is no fron- tler
Asia in South East whatsoever save on the Indo- China border. If that goes, they say, all becomes as fluid as it was when the Japanese entered Saigon, and then went on to the borders of that in India.
is many years since I saw
what the And so it comes about that tur- and is sought after by fortune terpart of
tellers. The bird hops down a countryside knows sp island, und very successfully too.
well as
morci
Slamere, the joined facing. each other sald to be as
Just as well Can you imagine
up boxing serialy?
You can't blåe Ben for Hogan paif records le that. Be'n E naturally parfuḥitter.
travels keys are rearable on Tung-row of small envelopes, and will Red-Breast-though friends tell what would open if they toɔk
Successive onslaughts, first by nick one up in its beak and lay it me the bird I saw was Japanese and then by guerillar aside. The envelopes contain a likely the Japanese Robin, and a followed by pirates bold and printed "fortune" which is then Southern straggler at that, though December In the what-have-you, have, doubtless, read and explained to the custo- to be seen in since destroyed all trace of this mer.
Bohen Hills. Interesting venture.
Instead we have a resident t the Chinese Dayal Bird, known the Magple Hobin, or Conton Robin, For all its sweed
quisitiveness,
the Black-capped Kingfisher, and the Chinese Chloropsis, Mell's Leafbird.
Migration routes
Further down the Fukien conal Iles the island of Hainan, right in the lane of migration, where
scores of different types of birds breed, thus forming a wonderful sput for the study of bird-life in general.
of
Garden of Fukien
song beauty endearing it
graceful in
every household, it frequents th most filthy places.
to
The
dis could only
A magistrate xpressed surprise Stretching Bouth of Foochow,
when told that man had entered. on. offee bulling in broad. parallel with the const-line, is the
daylight, stayed there an hour. Yuenfoo River Valley leading to
and then strokid out without Hinghwo and eventually Amoy
having being ked what he Many refer to this as the "Gar-
wanted, Here are to be found wide den of Fakten." Here one is Other Bongsters such ta thư
He thought They say
stretches grasoland dotted with Ulable to come across anything in Chinese Black - Thrush. known Europe no line could be held
Along the Fuklen Const, be-
low foothills and plenty of marsh- the way of fur, feathers, or scales. also as the Chinese Black Bird happen in a restarant.
Chinesu beyond the mountain bastion tween the Cheklang-Fuitten Bor- land, thus forming the ideal feed- From a botanical standpoint It Is or Asiatic Merle-the
Mining ground for myrinds of birds, der and the mouth of the
a collector's paradise.
call it the bird of "One hundre tuggcata, that the present law A possibly suspot correspondent of the Pyrenees save by the
River especially,
amongst which herds of cattle crista one of
My grandmother made a collec- tongues" since it -possesses ari integration of Germany's
those mysterious migration routes peacefully room.
tion of more than 400 species of extraordinary variety of notes necklines are somthing you can military potential with that followed by birds of all classes Many uncommon birds
And ferns from round the Bamboo and a wide variety of
Brown approve of and lake down on at
the same time. of Britain. That alone, says since Time had its beginning, and their way here, birds one would Groves and the vicinity of the Thrushes also appear attracte:
not thinks of associating with the Monastery. For the most part to filthy places. in this particular section of the the Military Assistant, to the
China Coast lies an island (Tung-China-Coast, as, for example, the these were the Maidenhair varle-
And did you note the advert: A common resident frequenting Ibis and the ties. Pelicans have been captured the larger durdiens in Foochow Evening British War Cabinet, would yung, by numme) which, in pre. lordly Swan; the
down gowns cut several types Spoonblu unassailable Pacific War days, boasted one of establish
in the Min River below Pagoda
ridiculously low.** strength in Europe against the best lighthouse lights main Cranes and Storks, Including the Anchorage and also up the Xuen- is the Tailor Bird, the male c
Adjutant Stork; tained by the Chinese Maritime hideous
thefoo River. Python have been shot, which carries long tall-feathers
It's quite undertandable- Soviet Russia. And then we
terminating in flat spines. Customs Service when that in- Pelican; neveral types of Gerse atop of Disraeli's Nose a sharp era nest is formed by sewing the brother's newspape report that) think of the Potsdam Destitution
Albatross, to under foreign with an occasional was
at the mouth of the Yuenfoo over-
of one or more leaves his marriage had goe Bing made? edges claration and the link with supervision and respected as such. mention the larger birds.
looking Foochow Though invited
In 1018 a party of local sports-
Tiger have been pitted nearby, together which the female carries the famous crooner julte Crosby
in the
the end...
.. Japan, and realise that what
occasions. I have never visited men visited the island and bagged
as also at Kuliang, the part's out by punching holes a specimen of what must be a is done about Germany ("O the island; but I do belleve the
Pangolin are leaves through which plant fibres
Following
their please,
successful cursed spite") creates a pre-teepers there as and when Black Swan. This was shot by used to be done in pre-war days flous nest, lined with the softest housewives are now going. on
stories told by successive foreign rarily indeed the Australian summer
plentiful and quite a business are drawn and, if you
knotted. And in this truly marve boycott of high-priceddah, British.. cedent Japan can cite too.
they have been my father's guests Mr. Ronald Greig.
against the cost In and round Foochow are to be making their shells. into lady'r We find ourselves today on those rare occasions they have
and leaf skeletons. strike mosa walking on
been granted a few days' shore- found a great variety of birds the work-baskets. There used to be there my be as many as five vegetables. Fearing. Got this sort two paths to
in por
of thing will spread, incomo fpx leave.
whole year round. One harbingquite a brisk busines
eggs, peace, with Mr. Dean Acheson
picture-frames; but clipine-quill er of spring, visiting the port as
collectors are said to be, getting- A bird of quite a different sort. As clockwork between one seldom comes
across such
Д large and Mr. Trygvie Lic as the
regular
related to
group of distinctly nervous. principal pilgrims.
April 18 and 19 and staying into articles today. Nothing seems in Cuckoos to be found in North
You probably notice. August, is the handsome Broad- have been done with snakeskin,
ter known, as the Rain Crow, pi of Egrets which beautiful birds wan, where purses, belts, shoes Brain-Fever Bird, whose monovich a million people invaded were greatly sought after up till | and
and walking-sticks
the tonous call almost certainly pre-Hardwar. I trust, however, that 1920 when the local authorities Taiwanese what lacquerware is to dicts main within alow hours you kept your seats; this had put a stop to the trade in their the Fukienese.
but which so Incessantly nothing to do with the cold was. feathers. In the old days Foochow Many fine tiger and leopard peated, drives one crazy, The was noted for a certain type of sities are offered for sale in Foo-bird has a tritic of throwing its silverware, mostly picture-frames.
In- voice so it is useless trying to by drive it away, and it covers t claws regular bent which it travels das
after-day:
on many
resort.
dry
of
Aerowi **
American Secretary of State to three feet deep: birds of every Billed Roller. There are colonies however, such as one finds in, Tal./ Fukian; is the Indian, Koel, bet sieture yesterday of hescene.
must
are to
It appears that in seasons hun dreds of birds dash themselves to The death against the light-lens and are found in the mornings two variety incidentally. It must be su, as these triends have brought in with them as presents for our ble gunny-bags full of geese, ducks, plover, with the occasional swan. Not a body has borne a shot-mark.
The inland too seems to be utilising Kingfisher feathers, and chow; but la nearly every happily located by the warm I am glad to say the authorities stance the skin is ruined ocean currents as to form a fisher-put a stop to this trade also about having the whiskers and
prised out. Before the the same time. man's dream-spot. days that this light station, and others South of Foochow, were maintained with essential stores: by a Customs Cruiser besod at Amoy, contact with the island.
is said to be armed with the conviction that the cold war must be accepted as a per- manent feature of future planning. Therefore all efforts be directed to the strengthening of the political, economic and military forces of the Atlantic Powers. The other pilgrim is going to Moscow in the belief that a great effort must be made this year-the year of de cision-to end the cold war, preferably-through-the-Unit--
ed Nations.
implicit in the Common Pro gramme and in the speeches that went with its adoption
Actually it is not a matter of preference at all. It is obvious that all direct touch has been lost. Nobody will take the road to Canossa even if it were open--and it isn't. If anything whatever can be done to turn the cold war into peace, even a cold peace, the United Nations is the only conceivable instru-
So the issue can no longer ment. And not much more be discussed in those philo- can be expected from Mr. sophic terras common to the Lie's mission than local political agreements under the prin- ciple of co-existence.
dilletante..
The
A
DIAMOND TOWNS ARE LAYING THEIR GHOSTS
:
By Geoffrey Jenkins
world until it was ousted by the cullinan stone has also spring into life again,
· Jagersfontein," in the Orange been, a ghost town with only. Free State, has, ilke Cullinan,
memories since 1932. It was there that, in 1893, a native miner picked up the " Excelsior," which weighed 9714 carata:
world, headlines.
Although the conveyor belt and come to Cullinan and Jagersfontein, the mining of diamonds is not just a
mechanisation have
matter of carat-yield and hard- currency values.
Men still dream over the con veyor-belts, their ken, may swim
and think that into another priceless stone,
one, four-and-a-half Inches long, two-and-a-quarter inches wide, and two deep which may go to grace a royal crown.
** Let's "Kays" surt, John, and In 2.000 A.D. we may
• able to buy a car.”
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with STYLE, –
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at Peking. six months ago A ghost town, haunted by have sprung up at a cost of another diamond which will hit has been run out of the pic- the brilliance of the greatest 820,000,
There is a great deal of recrea- ture, and mere "leading" is gem in the world has ever tion for the workers, and for five over. The Communist writeen, has come
to life again shillings a month a man сал now runs along the entire on the outskirts of Pretoria.
The name Cullinan, which in get books from the library, pla sea and land frontiers with 1905 became a by word on the billiards, badminton, bowls, erle Indo-China, and from Hainan, lips of princes, a headline on the set und rugby and use the tin.
swimming pool.
The diamond mine which pro- air power can dominate the main pages of newspapers, and
a whisper in the mouths of inter-duced the biggest diamond in the Gulf of Tonkin.
national crooks, for there
had been found the fabulous 3,023 carat Cullinan- diamond, presed Into oblivion, and with it the little mining village which adjoins the famous Premier Mine. strategic situation, comes into Since 1932 Cullinan's empty the picture as well. Politics houses have looked out on silent Fundamentally the Krem- and strategy are not irrecon- neat homes and gardens with iscaranda-lined avenues, and the lin is dominated by the dec- cilable in principle. Difficult their shady lanes have been trine of the inevitability of as it may be to do so in detail, ¦ deserted. conflict, while more and more they have to be-reconciled. Now the great Premier Mine people in the West are com- Mr. Acheson, in a statement and dream again of the great has been re-opened, and men talk ing to
the conclusion that after his conversations with gom, which the Transvaal Gove Spengler's dogmatfam on the the French Foreign Minister crament 45 years ago presented coming of Caesarism is not in Paris, said the United to King Edward VII, who had it far wrong. And without States recognised that the cut to form part of the British Crown Jewels. Two of these what Mr. Acheson called solution depended both upon stones, of 530 and 317 carats, are "positions of strength" we the restoration of security the largest cut diamonds in axis cannot hope even for local and upon the development of tance. agreements or for an inter- genuine nationalism, and Despression came lude in the waging of war by that American assistance in Not all the king's ransom the all means except by lethal economie ald and military Cullinan diamond was worth nor weapons. The fateful de- equipment "can and should all the £60,000,000 worth of rare stones which Premier Mine cisions in the West will contribute to these; major yielded in 20 years of life could doubtless await the outcome objectives." The statement save Cullinan from the impact of of Mr. Lle's mission. If added that the two statesmen the 1032 depression and the dan Stalin, agrees to a series of had discussed France's cam- of the old opencast system of
mining.
be after 1932 until now, when it meetings of the Security paign in Indo-China and the Now a completely new system has begin work again.
It is older by far than Cullinan, Council as he has suggested, entire field of Western in- of mining has been evolved, and the chance will be seized terests in South East Asia. sides of the "Big Hole" in order as 1870, a year or two after the shafts have been sunk into the having been started as far back with both hands. If not, the The United States Govern- to reach the main diamond "pipe" first; diamonds had been dis- West will have to go ahead ment," "convinced that hel- for which the mine is famed. " covered on "the-; banks circumspectly but boldly. ther national Independence Diamonds have already been nearby Orange River
extracted from the pipe, although Kimberley became the weten Meanwhile not only those nor democratic evolution can work officially only started with diamond, name in the world, with of us out here who are so exist in any area dominated the first month of 1950, and, the names such as Cecil Rhodes and Barney. Barriate in the forefront close to the scene but even by Soviet Imperialism,” miners, have Hinata themselves a observers, in Europe, realise agreed that aid to the asso-target of $81,000 tons of blue men who sold diamonds liter the urgenty of the Indo-ciated States of Indo-China round diamond-yielding earth ally by the bucketful.
sagarsfontein has also taken to China problem. The politi and to France was, warranted. Four-hundred-and-thirty ↑ Bus new methods to mine: diamonde, cal, and strategic aspects of It was warranted, said the ropean families and 2,300 natives and the days when a native miner this question mu be solved, statement, because I would have moved Into the once desers picked up a prince's fortune?
ted town, d
the wheel of the turn of his pick are goN FREN solved quid
solved help them in storing society are lurt again Crop The 1313-foot conveyor
(the longest of a kind stability and lif, peAditting together
Mak James Swill deliver 0,000-Zonda. "thene States to pursue their ful' and democratio, det
men month,
The native miner received for his find a gift of £500 and a horse with saddle and bridle.
{{Two years later another, great stone came from Jagersfontein—· the faultless 634-carat Jubilee, so named in honour of Queen Vic- toria's Jublice.
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