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under my notice have certainly belonged to the latter species, 



which is also an inhabitant of the Malay peninsula, Sumatra, 



and Java. 



I am yours, &c., 



J. H. GURNEY. 



S3 Carlyle Square, S.W. 

 February 21, 1874, 



Sir, — I should like to make a correction or two to my paper 

 on Chinese ornithology, sent from Shanghai, and published in 

 * The Ibis ' for last October. At page 364 I have reported 

 that I got in the market a Circus cineraceus. This, on closer 

 examination, I find to be a male C. melanoleucus in the 

 light reddish brown immature dress, a state in which the 

 bird does not appear to have been procured before. This 

 plumage has neither been described nor figured. I have never 

 met with INIontagu's Harrier myself in Cliina, nor have I any 

 evidence of its occurrence within our limits. 



At page 366 I suggest that jEthyia ferina, or the " Ferru- 

 ginous Duck,^^ should be expunged from the Chinese list of 

 birds, as it had never occurred to me. Mr. A, Michie, of 

 Shanghai, writes and describes a Duck which has lately 

 been brought to him at Shanghai from the Taihoo Lake in 

 some numbers. His description tallies precisely with that of 

 this species. So my suggestion falls through. 



When passing through Shanghai a few months back, Mr. 

 Triggs, of Lane, Crawford, & Co., presented me with the skin 

 of an adult male and of an immature male of Pelecanus crispus 

 which he had shot a week before on the river close to Shanghai. 

 I was aware of the existence of this species in China, but 

 never procured specimens before. 



I am, yours truly, 



Robert Swinhoe. 



33 Carlyle Square, S.W. 

 March 7, 1874. 



Sir, — It will be interesting to some of the readers of 'The 

 Ibis ' to learn that the bird described by Radde in his ' Reisen 



