660 Staff-Surgeon K. K. Jones on Birds 



very powerful light on Nortli-East Promontory doubtless 

 attracts many birds to this place, particularly in stormy, 

 cloudy weather. 



From North-East Promontory most of the birds seem to 

 pass along the coast to the southward, until they reach the 

 vicinity of Shi Tao, whence a considerable number appear to 

 strike out across the sea towards the mouth of the Yangtze 

 Kiang. 



ISIany migrants, however, arrive all along the coast 

 between Wei Hai Wei and North-East Promontory, and 

 doubtless towards Chefoo they are equally abundant. 



To this part of China the writer of these notes made 

 visits in 1901, 1902, and 1907 ; on the first two occasions 

 in H.ISI.S. * Waterwitch,^ a surveying- vessel, and on the last 

 to the Royal Naval Sick Quarters on Leu Kung Tao. In 

 1901 the ' Waterwitch ' was engaged in surveying at Wei 

 Ilai Wei, and in searching for a supposititious shoal in the 

 Pechili Gulf, from September 4th to the 14th, and some 

 notes made during these ten days are incorporated in this 

 article, as they are of some ornithological interest. 



"\^'hilst sheltering under the lee of a sandbank from a 

 north-easterly gale in the neighbourhood of Taku, exceptional 

 opportunities occurred for observing the migration of birds 

 across the Gulf of Pechili from Manchuria. The observations 

 made at this time are noted under the various species 

 concerned. 



In October 1901 a survey was also made of Shi Tao Bay, 

 and there the arrival of many migrants was observed. 



At Shi Tao, the writer made the acquaintance of the late 

 Mr. C. A. Schwilf, a sportsman-naturalist, to whom, in the 

 course of a long subsequent correspondence, he is indebted 

 for many interesting notes and specimens. 



In 1902 a survey of the coast of the Shantung Peninsula 

 was made, as far to the west of Wei Hai Wei as White Rock, 

 and to the east to the North-East Promontory and some 

 ten miles to the soiith of it. In 1907 nearly all the notes 

 were made either on Leu Kung Tao or en the mainland 

 immediately opposite. 



