38 Mr. J. D. D. La Touche on the [Ibis, 



The somewhat orange-yellow patch on the bill and fore- 

 head of this Swan does not extend beyond the nostril, 

 reaching only to the posterior end of the aperture. It 

 measured from the feathers on the forehead 1*4< in. in 

 length. The culmen and bare forehead together measured 

 ■1'4 in. The shape of the head is rounded^ the featliering 

 stopping at a line above the eye. 



275. Cygnus jankowskyi Alpheraky. 



Cygnus mitior D. & O. p. 494. 



Cygnus jankowskyi La T. p. 584. 



I saw Swans on five occasions during March 1911, and 

 the collectors saw several large parties and flocks in March 

 1913^ and on the 1st of April that year. Since then I have 

 not noticed them passing, but most probably overlooked 

 the passage. An example shot at the Hsieh Chia Ying 

 mai'shes by the collectors was identified by Mr. Ogilvie- 

 Grant as being a specimen of Jankowski^s Swan. I have 

 two others : an adult bird shot here on the 19th of March, 

 1911, and an immature bird from Shanhaikuan, shot at the 

 end of March or beginning of April 1914. 



I purchased a winged adult bird on the 17th of March, 

 1917, which I kept in our yard until the following October, 

 when I took it to Shanghai with the other Swan mentioned 

 above. This bird recovered from its wound after a few 

 weeks, but it was several days before it would feed. 

 Eventually it took to a diet of boiled green beans and, like 

 its unwounded companion, ended by eating also the soaked 

 bran and kaoliang given to the other wild fowl. Many weeks 

 passed, however, before it would eat in the presence of 

 anyone. The iris of this bird when it was in my possession 

 was greyish, and the bird's facies was very different from 

 that of its companion. The line of the forehead feather- 

 ing was prolonged at an angle over the base of the upper 

 mandible, the feathering reaching to a distance from which 

 a line could be drawn through the centre of the eye, whereas 

 in the other Swan, as noted above, this feathering stopped 



