433 Mr. R. Swinhoe's Ornitholoc/ical Notes made at Chefoo. 



splashed with reddish cream obscurely barred with brown ; the 

 sides and belly barred with reddish brown ; the tibials more 

 closely and narrowly with a greyer hue of same ; the under 

 tail washed with white and barred with narrow bars of brown ; 

 the vent a pure white. Total length of skin about 13 inches ; 

 of wing 7| ; of tail 6-3. 



The same good friend sent me a few days licfore a young 

 male in the immature plumage. This had the iris also plain 

 yellow and the legs much greener than in the adult. 



I cannot^ I am sorry to say^ speak with certainty as to 

 whether this species breeds about Chefoo. I never saw it 

 so engaged ; the ardent native falconers were never met with 

 young birds in training ; and the immature birds had plenty of 

 time to be on their return migration from the Corea^ or Mant- 

 churia. The organs examined of the spring arrivals were well 

 advanced ; and it is not impossible that a few halt en route to 

 carry out the golden law, while the majority of their race push 

 northwards. 



10. Bkown Hairy-footed Owl. Nino x jap onicus (Temm. 

 & Schleg. Faun. Japon.). 



On the 13th May, when rambling through the " Bois de 

 Boulogne/^ we put up two of tliis Owl. They flapped to the 

 cover of neighbouring trees. My Chinese servant went after 

 them with a gun ; but the birds were too sharp for him. These 

 Owls were on their northward migration, and on the 21st Mr. 

 Campbell sent me one from the Lighthouse island. It was a 

 male and measured 12 inches ; wing 8-3, first quill I'D shorter 

 than the second, which is 'Q shorter than the third, which 

 with the fourth are the longest ; wing-tip falls 1*2 short of 

 tail and 1*8 longer than the tertiaries. Tail 5*3 long, of 12 

 nearly equal feathers. Cere and bill greenish. Iris yellow. 

 Feet yellow, sprinkled on their upper surface with bristles, 

 and covered on their soles with thickly packed long yellow 

 papillse. Claws long, sharp and black. Tarse bare only round 

 the ankle; middle toe 1*2, its claw "55. 



On the 28th Mr. Carles, from the Legation at Pekin, who 

 was staying with me, went to the " Bois de Boulogne " and 



