630 Mr. J. D. D. La Touche on the [Ibis, 



invaluable information on Chihli birds and for the loan or 

 gift of specimens ; to Father Scherjon, of the Dutch Lazarist 

 Mission, for his kind assistance in procuring me specimens 

 from the Chien An district (about fifty miles as the crow 

 flies to the west-north-west of Chinwangtao) througli a 

 native hunter; and to Fathers Schmid and Dekkers, of the 

 same mission, for information regarding the geography of 

 the interior, for their kind hospitality, and for the loan of 

 their residence on two occasions. My best thanks are also 

 due to Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Graut, late of the Natural History 

 Museum, and to Dr. E. Hartert for kindly identifying a 

 number of specimens for me, and to Lord Rothschild for 

 the use of the collections at Tring. 



In the following notes, which are a summary of those 

 made at Chinwangtao from November 1910 to October 1917, 

 I have as a rule restricted references to David and Oustalet^s 

 * Oiseaux de la Chine ' and to my previous paper on this 

 part of China. 



1. Corvus corone orientalis Eversmann. 



Corvus corone David & Oustalet, Les Oiseaux de la 

 Chine, p. 368 : La Touche, Ibis, 1892, p. 429 ; Bull. B. O. C. 

 vol. xxix. p. 132. 



Corvus orientalis La Touche, Ibis, 1914, p. 566. 



The first Chinese examples of the eastern Carrion Crow 

 were taken at Foochow in 1884, previous to which date the 

 bird had been found by Swinhoe at Naochow Islands, near 

 Hainan, but had not been obtained there or elsewhere in 

 China, unless the specimen recorded by P^re Courtois as 

 shot in Kiangsu by Pere Heude and preserved in the Sikawei 

 Museum be of anterior date (Ibis, 1907, p. 510). One 

 example was taken at Shaweishan on the 23rd of March, 

 1911, by the collectors sent there by me on behalf of the 

 Migration Committee of the British Ornithologists^ Club. 

 This Crow is a regular migrant at Chinwangtao in late 

 autumn. It also passes in the early spring, and I have occa- 

 sionally seen individuals in winter which were undoubtedly 

 of this species. It is quite evident that a fair number jmss 



