458 Mr. C. Ingram on the 



118. Phalacrocorax, sp inc. Cormorant. 



At the junction of the Sungchiang and the Sungari Rivers, 

 Sir E. James observed an enormous colony of Herons and 

 Cormorants nesting together in willow-trees ('The Long 

 White Mountain/ p. 275). In a letter to me he describes 

 these nests as being placed "on trees growing in deep mud 

 and bulrushes and were unapproachable. Some of the trees 

 were so smothered with the birds' droppings that they seemed 

 to have been killed.'^ These Cormorants were most likely 

 Ph. carbo, but they may, of course, have been Ph. filamentosus 

 (T. &S.). 



119. Ardea cinerea Linn. Common Heron. 

 Tacz. p. 980 ; Dresser, p. 564. 



fl. (5^? Fan-chia Tun, Kirin Province. Sept. 10, 1908. 



In 'The Long White Mountain' (p. 274) Sir Evan 

 James writes as follows : — " Descending from the ridge, we 

 passed through richly cultivated valleys till we reached the 

 Sungchiang, one of the largest affluents of the Sungari. 

 Near the junction was the finest heronry I ever saw. Thou- 

 sands of Herons and Cormorants were nesting together in 

 the willow-trees." 



120. BoTAURUs STELLARis (Linn.). Bittern. 

 Tacz. p. 991 ; Dresser, p. 578. 



A male was shot at Yinko, April 7, 1901 {Bianchi). 



121. Anser segetum mentalis. Thick-billed Bean- 

 Goose. 



Alpheraky, 'Geese of Eur. and Asia,' p. 130. 



This is a somewhat doubtful subspecies, of which seemingly 

 only three skins are known to ornithologists — one from Japan 

 (now in the British Museum, and Oates's type), one from 

 Bering Island, and lastly one from Yingtzu or Yinko, 

 South Manchuria (not North Manchuria as stated by 

 Alpheraky, p. 131, when referring to this bird). In his ' Geese 



