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NOTES ON. WILD LIFE IN HONG-ted lack and white on wine-grey; there Woodlark

no core. This bird is even, ecarmoner HONG AND SOUTH CHINA.

in the Colony than that mentioned above, C-36 and almost forces itselt on our atten. 0.37 tion. Both are on sale in Hongkong C.38 market as articles of food.

(By Bot. G. A. Bunbury, M.A., Principal of Diocesan Training College, Canton.)

These notes are the result of observa-coloured pigeon) occasionally on sale in037 tions made during the past few years, in bird-shops in Canton. The bill is red,:039 the intervals of Mission work. They do tho neck and breast chocolate, the pata not profees to be exhaustive. It is hoped grey; the wings green with a blue sheen. that they may serve a finger posts to These pigeons are said to be common in other observers in this interesting Bald.] ·

the Philippine Islands; they have not the ye: settled in Hongkong, and on mainland the absence of woods makes their appearance rare."

J. Far rarer than either of the above .035 is the Chinese Ng-sui-pan-zau (the five- .036

BONE BIRDS OF PRIT.

Under this heading are usually in- cluded owls, ospreys and hawks: the last group being of very wide extent, from the golden eagle to the sparrow hawk This sub-order is not so wide represented in South China as suas others, owing to the absence of trees and the bigh cul tivation of the land. The express and owls have a common feature in the outer

A link between the pigeons and the gane birds, the next order to be ect. sidemed, is found in the sand-grouse (Pteroclidae), This family is entirely confined to the Old World, and its most famous representative, Palins sand grouse (Schaptes paradoxus) to Central

toe being revisible, and able to TP Asia. This bird has buff upper parts

either forward or backward. Owls differ from the majority of hawks in the fact that they hunt their prey by night. This leads to differences in the position of the eyes, which in the owls are directed for- wards while in the other hawks they are directed sideways.

river gunboat

Lt. Comdr. H. W. Seymour

Flagship of Admiral Alfred L. Winslos, K.C.B., C.7.0.0.M.G., Commander-in-Chief.

Name,

Doritée

Foreign Men-of-war on the China and Japan Station

barred with black mainly blue grey Kaiser Frans Joseph 1 Austro-Hungarian cruiser 4000 45 wings and tail, with black and chestnut makings on the former; dull yellow crown

Dupleix t and cheeks; orange nape and throat; Klebor greyist buff neck and breast, white b domen and metatarsal plumage, an inter- rupted black gorget, and a broader black | Argus Kershaw's list gives four species of bad towards the belly." (Evans, Birds Vigilante owl, a horned owl (Asio); a fishing owl. 324.) It gains its name paradoxus, (Ketupa): an eagle owl (Bubo) and a from the extraordinary impulse which Peibo tufted owl (Scops). Only the last is drives it forth in vast numbers from the Dondard de Lagree common: it may occasionally be heard deserts of Central Asin to invada coí-

in the tropas at the back of Kowloon City." The Chinese give all owls the name of Mau-tau-ying (cat-headed hawk) and eat them all without distinction.I have seen both the horned owl, and the great eagle owl in the poulterers' shops Cunten and Shiv-hing awaiting their fate. They are also known at Lob Fau, but only in winter.

Fag and description. Tons. Guns, E.P.

Captains.

Last report at

French armoured cruiser French armoured cruiser French gunboat French river gunboat French gunboat

8000

10,014: 30 20,000,

970 12 -19,600

4510 1000

Capt. H. Nauta

Capt. Vergos Capt. Gouts Lieut. Vandier

Shangha

Shanghal

Hongkong

Saigua

180

570

Lieut. Dordat

Cantor

French gunboat

103 7

130

500

Lieut. de Jervillier

Canton

Lieut. Collin

Tongku

Frouch gunboat

Lieat. Depay Dutemps

Tehong-Kin

French sub-marine-

Livat. Boluix

Saigon

French sub-marine.

Saigon

French armoured gunboat 1798 10

1700

Ident. Guillaume-Louis

Stigon

French destroyer.

850

306

Lieut. Aurillac

Saigon

Tberville Pistolet

Mousquet Manche

French destroyer

Capt. de Frigate Romisen

Hongkong

French destroyer

French destroyer'”. -

130

907 6 1025 10

·7

300.

300 9400

:: Comadre de Marquesaz

Saigon

Balgos

Comdr. Voisin

tiental Europe and even tho British Isley and Norway. A specimen is pre- served in the Museum at Bargen, and the birds visited Great Britain in 1640, Protes 1863, 1872, 1978, and 1888; the last being Styr the largest invasion of all. In the follow ing spring a special protective Act of Parliament came into force, but the birds seem to have disappeared as suddenly they arrived.

Fronde

+ Flagship of Rear-&diniral Colloch de Kerillis, Commander-in-Chief, the French China Station.

French surveying-ship

· Flagship of Capt. (Commodore' Bousicant. Commanding tha'Inca] defines Indo-Chinx

German cruiser

Capt. Hosing

"German cruiser

3800 02:13,500 Capt. Restorā

Taingtaa

German Armoured cruiser 11,800

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Tsingan

German gunboat

900

12.

1900

Comdr. v. Gohran

Shanghal

German ganbest

200

12

1300

Comdr. Vanselow

Tsingtan

3950

2111,000

Capt. Belincke In

"Tsingta

German gumbost

German cruiser

900

3400-

10 (-1850)

Comdr. Bendemand

22 13,200

Capt. Moreberger

German river gunboak

Capt. Ident. Firle

German flagship.

German torpedo-boat German torpedo-bout German gunboat

11,600 36 98,000 400 8 8800 280

Capt. Lieut. Barrenberg

*6000, Oblt. 3. S. Claassen

10

1950

Comir Böcker

Tsingtan

Vaterland

Gannan river gumboab ferman ziver gunbost

1300

Capt. Lt. Frhr. Spetă

800.

Oble. 2. 8. Prins

Calabria

Ibalian cruiser

Comdr. Bommi Picenardí

Portuguese gunboat

Capt. Martins

Captain L. A de Magalhses Corres

STATION

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Taku

In the eagle group, Kershaw's list con- tains Butuster, and Milvus melanotis the former the kite so constantly seen hover- ing over the. Harbour of Hongkong, where

At the Magistracy yesterday afternoon & it swoops down on any floating garbage or snaps a fish from a shoal. It also in man was charged on reman with attempting cludes two species of sparrow hawk toexport 210 taels of opium, and the ReEmden (Accipiter nisus and gularia). The venue authorities offering no further ord Gusisyrian former is the bird, known in England; ence, the man was discharged, Mr FX Iltis its Chinese name is Wat teal. The bird D'Almada appeared for the defendant, and Jaguar is, of course, caten, but is also said to

on his application the opium and his Leipsig be trained in the Lim-chau Fretrectare certificate were returned to the defendant, Lachs for hawking. In this species the female

Miraburg exceeds the malo in size and strength.

Before Mr Irving at the Magistray. Otter The list also mentions Corchsels tin- nunculus, u ́ Kestrel, which Kershaw yesterday Afternoon's man appeared on a Scharnhorst thinks to be the commonest hawk in win. charge of endeavouring to export 395 tele tur. These little birds are very largely of opium on beard the x. Rubi. Mr RO insectivorous, catching and eating their Hutchison, Saperintendent of Imports and

Tiger prey on the wing, like the sparrow-hawk: Esporte, prosecuted, and Mr Otto Kong they are the same species as in England. Sing delended. The case was remanded THE PIGZON TRIKE until the as. Rubi gain comes to Hig This group is probably one of the hest kong,bail in 8300 being allowed, known' and most fully studied. Pigeons am kept by the Chinese bird fander as Mr George Beggarth, made an applic Macho well at by the Eigish. "Daves se com- tion to Mr Irving at the Magistracy yester mols, and so destructive in some perla of - day afternoon te bave 845 tiels of opium- England, seem to pottle wherever the handed over to the opium farmer, The European has made plantation. Revipium had been seized in different parts of

A.2. dents in Hongkong know how countion the Colony Mr EU. Batchle they are on the lower levels (especially Superintendent of Imports and near the Botanical Gardens), but they ar

opponed the

Gion, which, nino, shound in Bhameen, Canton, where

was granted. they have a great Chinese city on one side, and a wide river on the other

Dovas differ from: Figoone by, the mish rainen of the pan, the fleshy growth

the base of the bil

17. The commonest dose is the Chinese ring-Gove, Turkur Chinensis, the Chinese

and s grey head 1 pha braxat,

Kray and white, the l

shower in the summe

haan. In this specie tās

tissit brown, the colla

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