423 Mr. R. Swinhoe's Ornithological Notes made at Chefoo. 



The following are the measurements of the present species 

 compared with those of specimens of Acrocephalus dumetorum 

 and A palustris in my collection : — 



XLIII. — Ornithological Notes made at Chefoo {Province of 

 Shantung, North China). By E.. Swinhoe^ H.M. Consul. 



(Plate XIV.) 



I ARRIVED at Chefoo on the 25th Aprils too late for the game- 

 marketj but in time to catch the inflow of the later migrant 

 land-birds. Few English readers will probably know where 

 Chefoo is ; so it will be as well to say something of its position 

 on the globe before proceeding to give my ornithological ex- 

 periences there. The northward coast-line of China ends at 

 the Shantung promontory ; and the land now bearing west- 

 wards discovers at a distance of about sixty-eight miles the 

 little harbour called Yentai by the Chinese, which was opened 

 to foreign trade by the Treaty of Tientsin of 1860, as more 

 accessible to shipping than the port of Tengchow city (named 

 in the treaty) , which is situate about forty miles further west 

 on the coast, and within the Prefecture of which this locality 

 is included. The French Expedition rendezvoused here in 

 I860, while the British gathered their forces in Tazieuwan (of 



