34 Mr. J. D. D. La Touche on the [Ibis 



Towards the end of July 1889, I saw on the river at 

 Newchwaiig a brown Albatross. Tliis bird allowed a native 

 to fire at it repeatedly at very close range without rising 

 from the water. After several shots had been fired, it rose, 

 apparently none the worse, and sailed away, passing a hundred 

 yards or so from the boat I was in. 



262. Ibis melanocephala (Lath.). 

 Ibis melanocephala D. & O. p. 452. 



A white Ibis with black head and neck seen at the 

 marshes on the 5th of October, 1913, was without doubt an 

 example of the White Ibis. 



When at Newchwang, in 1889, I was given a skin of the 

 Japanese Crested Ibis {Nipponia nippon) by Mr. Farmer, 

 then Constable of H.B.M.^s Consulate at the port, who 

 told me that he liad seen a breeding-colony of these birds 

 some way up the Hiver Liao. I saw a flock fly over the 

 settlement towards the end of the autumn. 



263. Platalea leucorodia L. 

 Plutalea major D. & O. p. 451 (part). 



I saw a Spoonbill passing on the 13th of October, 1912, 

 and shot another on the 12th of October, 1913. The latter 

 bird, a male, is in fresh immature plumage. The shafts of 

 the wing-quills and the tips of these are black. Tlie colours 

 of the soft parts were as follows: — Iris dull burnt-sienna; 

 bill livid violet-black at the base, the greater part of the 

 upper mandible yellow with black stripes ; skin of throat 

 and lores yellow ; legs and feet black, the soles spotted with 

 yellowish. Bill 9'35 in., wing 15"5 in. 



264. Ciconia ciconia boyciana Swinhoe ? 

 Ciconia boyciana D. & O. p. 450. 



Four very large white birds with black wings seen passing 

 on the 20th of November, 1910, were most probably White 

 Storks. I have a male example purchased in the market at 

 Chinwangtao. It is almost adult. 



