268 Mr. R. Swinhoe on Chinese Ornithology. 



of this group passing that season iu China, whereas in winter, 

 when the rice gives place to the corn and vegetables, and 

 much of the damp ground lies fallow in the shape of marshes, 

 with the wild fowl return the Harriers, and while on sport 

 with the former many a species may be noted during the day. 

 I have never seen the eggs or young of any species brought 

 about for sale ; and I am pretty sure that most of the species 

 wander elsewhere to breed. During the winter I have noted 

 the following species beyond the one referred to above : — 



2. Circus spilonotus, Kaup. 



Abundant in winter over the marshes at the mouths of 

 the rivers near Amoy, also m similar places in Formosa. 

 Procured on the Yangtsze. 



3. Circus cyaneus, L. 



At Amoy and on the Yangtsze in winter. 



4. Circus swainsoni. Smith. C. pallidus, Sykes. 

 Captain Blakiston procured this species on the Yangtsze ; 



its head and foot were identified by Mr. J. H. Gurney. It 

 must have been this species that I saw by the Yangtsze and 

 mistook for C. cineraceus, Montagu. 



5. Circus ^ruginosus, L. 



I have seen and procured specimens of this species at Swa- 

 tow, Amoy, Formosa, and Hainan in the brown dress, some- 

 time with whitish head, but never with the mature greyish- 

 blue wings. 



New Horned Owl from China. 



I would like to take this opportunity to introduce a Horned 

 Owl that has hitherto been confounded with the Lempijius 

 glabripes, mihi. In my " Notes on the Ornithology of Hong- 

 kong, Canton, and Macao," I give a Scops (No. 10), which 

 I then mistook for the Foochow species (since christened ^/a - 

 bripes). A footnote by the Editor (Ibis, 1861, p. 29) adds, 

 "probably Scops lempiji (Horsf.), but rather dark in plu- 

 mage." L. glabripes was very common at Ningpo ; and I had 

 in 1872 many opportunities of studying the species. I found 



