G8G Staff-Surgeou K. II. Jones on Birds 



GalLICREX CINEREUS. 



The Indian AVatercock is a common lireeciing species abont 

 Shi TaOj \Yliereit does not arrive until June, and leaves again 

 in September. Swinlioe met with the bird at Chefoo in tlie 

 summer, and surraised that it bred there : he states that the 

 local Chinese name is " Hung Kwan/^ or Red-Cap ; but at 

 Shi Tao it is known by the name of " Pam-Pam," from the 

 characteristic cry, which is heard especiall}^ in the evening 

 and first part of the night. 



It is a late breeder, no doubt because the summer is not 

 sufficiently advanced for purposes of nidification in a sub- 

 tropical and tropical species until the month of July, when 

 most eggs are laid. The earliest date for fresh eggs was 

 July 8th and the latest August Gth. 



The nest is always made among rank grass and reeds in 

 damp and marshy places, and is, of course, composed of grasses 

 and dried water-plants below and lined with finer kinds. 



The eggs vary from four to seven in number, but most 

 nests contain six. They are very handsome, being of a very 

 yellowish cream-colour, thickly streaked and with varying 

 shades of red and red-brown. One clutch of six is of a 

 whitish ground-colour, rather thinly streaked with reddish- 

 brown, and spotted with shell-markings of a grey colour. 

 In all clutches of six which were seen, one egg is of a much 

 paler colour than the others. 



Fleet- Surgeon J. Stenhouse, R.N., found this bird breeding 

 up in a tree in Fokien Province; it never makes use of such 

 a nesting-site in Shantung, so far as is known. 



It probably breeds still farther north, for Commander 

 H. Lynes has met with it in Corea. 



The eggs vary in length from 1*74 to 1"55 inches and in 

 breadth from 1'27 to I'll : the average of forty-one eggs 

 is 1-G4 by 1-20. 



CUARADRIUS DOMINICUS. 



The Eastern Golden Plover was met with on several 

 occasions on its way south from its far northern breeding- 

 grounds. In October 1901, on several successive days, 



