observed about Talien Bay {N. China). 257 



The young have a strong wash of yellow over the predomina- 

 ting brown. They are freckled on the wing and tail-coverts 

 with yellowish white, and the back and rump in parts are ob- 

 scurely striated with a darker hue. The brown spots that mark 

 the centre of feathers in the older individuals are here very in- 

 distinct, and the pectoral spots do not show themselves. The 

 long crest is very apparent. 



Bill pale horn-colour, brown along the culmen; angle and 

 inside of mouth yellow. Irides brown. Legs and claws very 

 light flesh-ochre. 



This species is very distinct from the Alauda japonica, which 

 occurs in abundance in the plains of the Peiho; and 1 have 

 named it after the Province of Leautung into a peninsula of 

 which the bay flows. 



13. Stuknus cineraceus, Schlegel. 



This bird occurred here in flocks feeding in the open coun- 

 try, and roosting at night in the trees that grouped themselves 

 about the hamlets. From the number of young birds in the 

 flocks I infer that they spent the summer here for the purposes 

 of nidification, and thence on the approach of winter betake 

 themselves further south, and speed down the coast as far as 

 Canton. 



Yearling. Bill liver-brown with a wash of blackish. Inside 

 of mouth yellowish. Legs clay-colour. All the dark parts of 

 the adult plumage are in the young yellowish or light liver- 

 brown; some of the feathers, especially on the head, being 

 margined paler. The top of the head, freckles on the cheek, 

 quills, and tail-feathers of a darker brown. The throat is whitish. 

 At the commencement of winter this plumage becomes darker, 

 and then attains to what is called " la livree de passage " in the 

 ' Fauna Japonica,^ from which to the full summer garb is but a 

 step. 



14, CoRvus (Monedula) dauricus, Pallas. 



At the bottom of Talien Bay there is a creek with a flat rock, 

 some eighty feet high, standing at its mouth. The side of this rock 

 that faces the main, and the main itself, are very precipitous, 

 jagged all over with broken fragments of rock, and rent in 



