CD'S Drace-Francis Esq
APA
HONG KONG
Dear Charles,
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REGISTRY NO. 51 7 APR 1977.
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Mr Sspord
BRITISH EMBASSY PEKING
28 March 1977
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Thank you for your interesting letter CR 19/3231/73/ IV dated
15 March 1977, on which you asked for comments.
My first thought was that the "gannets" referred to may well be the Red-Footed Booby (sula sula rubripes) about which Liu Jing-xian and Wang Zi-yu of the Peking Zoological Research Institute wrote an article in Issue No 3 (1975) of the Zoological Magazine. There the Booby is described as one of the commonest sea birds in the Paracels, found in thousands but only on East lsland. article in question has been translated into English by lain Orr.
You may like to know that the
3 I will try to find out more about the list from Dr Cheng Tso-hsin of the Zoological Research Institute, Academica Sinica.
yous tre Jou
JHC Gerson
cc I C Orr Esq
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