6G6 Staff-Surgeoii K. II. Jones on Birds 



not remain long; tliey almost all continue tlieir journey 

 south at once. 



Terpsiphone fncii. 



The Chinese Paradise Flycatcher occurs on migration^ and 

 was observed at North-East Promontory and at Wei Hai 

 AVei early in September. 



At Leu Kung Tao one of tliese birds flew into a sitting- 

 roonij apparently attracted by a light. 



IIlRUNDO GUTTURALIS. 



The Common Swallow of the East is abundant about Wei 

 Hai Wei, where it breeds under the eaves of houses like its 

 Western representative. Although the Chinese regard these 

 birds as lucky, they do not protect them so rigidly in 

 Shantung further south, and there is no great difficulty 

 in obtaining their eggs. In the last week of September 

 Swallows begin to congregate on the roofs and telegraph- 

 wires, and sometimes on the rocks by the sea-shore^ previous 

 to their southern migration. The great majority have de- 

 parted by the first week in October, two months later than 

 in Hong Kong, 



The nests are similar to those of IJiriindo rustica, and the 

 eggs are laid, in Shantung, towards the end of May and in 

 June ; four or five eggs form the usual clutch. 



Thirty eggs from Shantung average '74 x '52 inch, and 

 vary in length from '82 to '70 inch and in width from '5Q 

 to '48 inch, 



IIlRUNDO STRIOLATA. 



This Swallow is a very common bird about Wei Hai Wei, 

 and, like Hirundo gvtturalis, frequents native houses in the 

 most familiar manner. 



In some years this species seems to leave Shantung earlier 

 than the Eastern Common Swallow, but perhaps, as a rule, 

 it takes its departure a little later. It may be that the date 

 depends, to a considerable extent, on the ability of the young 

 to migrate, for as late as the first week in October, 1907, 



