64 Sporting Notes in the Far East. 



" MISCELLANEOUS BIRDS." 



" Greater Bustard " appear about the month of October, and 

 remain in till the end of March. They are to be met with, on 

 nearly all the large sandy plains running in from China's barren 

 coasts, especially in the province of Shantung; also during the same 

 period of the year, they will be found on nearly all the more or 

 less uninhabited islands, of the North China sea. The most 

 practicable way of shooting them, is by stalking with a rifle. 



A few " Black Game," both cocks and grey hens, were shot in 

 September, by sportsmen in the fleet, at odd places up the Tartary 

 coast, north of Vladivostock They were generally found in the 

 bent coarse grass, of dried up marshes. 



" Jungle Fowl," there are in the island of Hainan ; but they are 

 only shot some distance in from the coast, and there is always 

 great difficulty in getting them up, out of the almost " impossible " 

 covert. These birds are very numerous all down the Malay 

 peninsular ; and there also is the home of the Peacock. At 

 Pah-hang (a place already mentioned), these latter birds have been 

 seen and shot by the dozens. 



Flocks of " Golden Plover," are seen in the winter, all over 

 China ; sure finds for them being on the large mud flats, at the 

 mouths of the many streams and rivers. 



Golden plover when flying, have a most peculiar habit of 

 dropping many yards in the air, if fired at. Therefore if a flock 



