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nuisance, — so much so, that one or two persons whose gardens 

 it specially frequented ottered rewards for its destruction. I 

 tried to shoot it myself on two or three occasions, but so well 

 did it conceal itself that, although I knew that it was within a 

 very few yards of me, I could not get a glimpse of it. No 

 sooner did I move away than it recommenced its irritating 

 note. 



At last a friend saw it fly up into a pine-tree early one 

 morning, and shot it. Troublesome to the last, it lodged in 

 the tree, and required several more shots to dislodge it, 

 eventually reaching my hands a perfect rag. 



La Touche shot a specimen at Amoy in February. 



Scops latouchii Rickett. 



The type of this species was shot at Ah Ch'ung on Decem- 

 ber 16, 1899. Its stomach was crammed with minute insects 

 such as one might find in that of a Warbler. 



No other specimen has been obtained, so far as I am aware. 



Archibuteo strophiatus Gray. 

 A male was shot in February. 



ACCIPITER VIRGATUS (ReillW.). 



Occurs in winter, but not nearly so frequently as A. nisus 

 or A. gularis. 



Erythropus amurensis Gurney. 



I know of only two occurrences of this species, both in 

 November. 



? Falco peregrinator Sundew 



A skin sent home by me was pronounced by the Rev. H. 

 H. Slater to be F. atriceps Hume (Ibis, 1894, p. 223). 



In 'The Ibis' for 1896, pp. 530, 531, Mr. Ogilvie-Grant 

 writes : — " No doubt the Rev. H. H. Slater has correctly 

 referred the F. me/auoge/iys Rickett from Foochow to this 

 continental form " (i. e., F. peregrinator). 



Last year I took home another specimen, which I com- 

 pared with the type of F. atriceps, and it appeared to me to 

 agree very closely with it. 



This specimen is now in the British Museum. 



