4 Mr. J. D. D. La Touclie on the [Ibis, 



Two A'oung l)ircls were brought to me from the momi tains 

 on the IGth of July, 1917. Tliey were still in the first 

 nestling plumage and were unable to feed by tliemselves. 

 The head, neck, wing-coverts, and mantle were of a rich deep 

 brown, the feathers of the wing-coverts and mantle being 

 edged with chestnut; the back was slate coloured and the 

 breast chestnut-brown. The bill was of a very dark brownish 

 horn. They retained this plumage until about September, 

 when they changed gradually into adult plumage. They 

 were fed without difficulty by hand with crushed kaoliang 

 and small millet moistened with warm water, and remained 

 very tame until they could feed by themselves, after which 

 they would not allow one to handle them so freely. One of 

 these birds developed an abnormal liking for raw^ beef, and I 

 had to hide carefully the minced beef prepared for the other 

 'hirds, as this dove w^ould pounce on it and devour it all up. 

 Sometimes, if it saw me distributing this food, it noidd fly 

 down to i^natch it from my hands. It would pursue the 

 Cuckoo to get his meat from him. The other young dove 

 Avas almost equally fond of bread and milk, and both birds 

 would eagerly devour this when I gave them any. The meat 

 appeared to disagree with the dove, and 1 prevented it from 

 eating this as much as possible. On my leaving Chinwangtao 

 I gave them liberty and had at first some difficulty in i;etting 

 tiiem to go out. The native wlio sold me these birds told 

 me that one of the villagers had one which he had reared 

 at liberty and which remained perfectly tame. 



The Eastern Turtle-Dove is very common in southern 

 Manchuria and breeds at Newchwang. 



186. Syrrhaptes paradoxus (Pall.), 



Syrr/taptes paradoxus D. & 0, p. 389. 



Pallas^s Sand-Grouse is of very irregular occurrence at 

 Chinwangtao. In the very cold year of 1905, I believe, 

 it was seen in great numbers, but since then it does not 

 appear to have occurred until tlie autumn of 1912. That 

 year, on the 10th of November, I met several flocks flying 

 very swiftly towards the uortheabt. They flew low as a rule^ 



