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flanks, and axillaries, with blackish ; tail coloured like the 

 back. 



97. Spectacled Teal. Eunetta formosa (Georgi). 



A Jive male of this handsome Teal was procured for me by 

 a friend from some Chinese near Chefoo ; and I presented it 

 to Mr. Crasemanu for his aviary. No ducks or other wild 

 fowl were offered in the market while we were at Chefoo ; but 

 I was told that iu winter they are brought in great number 

 and variety. In the MS. Illustrations Casarca rutila (L.) 

 is figured as the Hwang-ya (M. D. 4398, 11831), or "Yel- 

 low Duck,^^ and Aix galericulata (L.) as the Lung-tow-ya 

 (M. D. 7402, 10306, 11831), or "Dragon-headed Duck," 

 though its more classical Chinese name is Yuen-yang (M. D. 

 12520, 11895). The Common Teal is also figured, but bears 

 DO Chinese name ; and there is the figure of a Duck called 

 Kiang-ya (M. D. 5500, 11831), or "River-Duck,'' which 

 puzzles me. I dotted down the foUoAving note of its appear- 

 ance : — " A Duck with brown head, blue neck, white breast 

 and back, green speculum, falcated tertiaries, dark tail, and 

 brown-spotted belly.'' 



98. Cormorant. Phalacrocorax carbo (L.). 

 Cormorants were common enough about the rocks of the 



Chefoo coast. On the 29th June Constable Webster found a 

 family of young birds on the bluff" rocks of Chefoo Head. 

 He shot one; it was a large bird covered with black down, 

 except on the wings and tail, which were still in blue quiU 

 just expanding at their tips ; its throat-skin was yellowish, 

 and its iris apparently yellowish brown ; its legs and toes 

 were black. The Constable visited the same cliffs on the 

 6th July, and procured another of the same family. It fell 

 from the top of the cliffs into the sea below, about 80 feet. 

 Its wings were grown, and all its down had given place to 

 feathers — this in nine days. The eyes were bluish grey. He 

 also got the female parent, which had bluish green irides, and 

 the greater part of the head white. She proved a female on 

 dissection, and was apparently the mother of the nest. The 

 native name for Cormorant is Loo-sze (M. D. 7338, 11285). 



