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We left the inn very early on the morning of the 7th. I 

 heard many birds on the hills, but, not having time to stop, 

 I only shot a Pomatorhinus musicus that was whistling in a 

 hedge near the path. On getting to the glen, mentioned 

 above, where the climbing practically began, I noticed among 

 the stones in the bed of the stream some sea-shells, and picking 

 them up found them to be quite fossilized. I made a rapid 

 search and found quantities o£ large oysters, two kinds of 

 cockles, one or two bits of madrepores, and a bone of some 

 large animal, and what appeared to be a molar of a large 

 elephant. I hope that some enterprising palaeontologist 

 may visit this spot, which cannot fail to produce interesting 

 material. 



We had had enough of Kwong-ti-bio the last time we 

 were there, so halted instead at Kuhsia, where we found 

 Bain's ponies, and, after a change of clothes and a rest, we 

 rode off and reached Anping that afternoon. 



The birds noticed on the way were — many Cotile sinensis 

 (at the sandstone cliffs near the plain), Motacilla leucopsis, 

 Sand-Plovers, Tringo'ides hypoleucus, a Buzzard, Myiagra 

 azurea, and a pair of Mynahs {Acridotheres cristatellus) just 

 inside the last hills ; these Mynahs were the first noticed 

 in Formosa. 



I went down to Takow next day, Nov. 8th. It presents 

 a very diftereut appearance from Anping. The entrance to the 

 harbour is a narrow passage between Apes' Hill and a low 

 bluff called Saracen's Head, which are both of coralline 

 limestone, and were probably separated at no very distant 

 date by an earthquake. Apes' Hill is 1110 feet above the 

 sea ; it is a long, bare hill, with an undulating plateau on its 

 S. and E. aspects. The lagoon is bounded on the N. and 

 N.E. by low mangrove-swamps, beyond which are Chimkim, 

 where the Catholic missionaries have a church and mission- 

 house, and, further up the lagoon, the village of Ling-a-liao. 

 The lagoon extends some seven miles to the south, and is 

 separated from the sea by a low sand-spit connected with 

 the bluff. 



Most of the 9th of November was spent in obtaining infor- 



