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AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



Photo from life bv E. E. Johnson. 



BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER ON NEST. 



A VOICE FROM CHINA 



Being somewhat familiar with most of our American birds and their 

 habits, I have been greatly interested in the study of the Chinese birds 

 since I came to Foochow two years ago. This is certainly a land of 

 birds and that too of a great variety. Though I have not personally 

 met so many species, I am told on good authority, that from this one 

 province of Fukkien there have been sent to England the skins of about 

 six hundred varieties, gnd when one remembers that in almost every 

 case these birds are strangers to an American, you can imagine the 

 pleasure in making their acquaintance and watching their habits. To 

 begin with, the birds of this land are all very highly colored, on an ave- 

 rage very much more so than their American friends, and almost to a 

 bird they are songsters. We have only been able to recognize thus 

 far, such friends as the White-necked Raven, the Black-billed Magpie, 

 the Lark Sparrow and the English Sparrow^ and Barn Swallow. In the 

 case of the friends whom we are able to recognize, there are some 



