1871.] MR. R. SWINHOE ON THE BIRDS OF CHINA. 423 



675. ATTAGEN MINOR (Gmel.). 



Pelecanus minor, Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1788, i. p. 572. 

 Tachypetes minor, Ibis, 1868, p. 56. 

 Paracel Shoals. One shot at Amoy. 



NOTE. In the Chinese Materia Medica (called ' Pun Tsao Kang 

 Muh') I find in the figure of the Fe-seng, or " Flying Beast," a re- 

 markable likeness to the fossil Archteopteryx described by Prof. 

 Owen. I will investigate this question on my present return to China. 

 R.S. 



