900 Mr. J. D, D. La Touclie on the [Ibis, 



hind neck, lesser wing-coverts and narrowly on the back 

 with pale buff. The spots on the breast iire dark and 

 numerous. 



I found on the beach at Chiuwaiigtao at the end of 

 August I'JIG a skeleton of this bird with just the rectrices 

 and wing-quills adhering. 



The Rev. Geo. 1), Wilder has [)rocured at Peking and in 

 jNTongolia examples of A. striolutus i31yth. It is possible 

 that this bird, hitherto uidvnown m China^ may straggle 

 to the coast. 



130. Otocorys alpestris flava (Gm.). 

 Otocorijs alpestris D. & O. p. 815. 



A series of six examples of the Horned Lark shot near 

 Shanhaikuan was brought to lue on the 2iid of December, 

 1913 : two adult males, wing 4'65 and 4*75 in. ; three young- 

 males, wing 4<'08, 4'15j and4'20in. ; and an adult female, 

 wing 4'25 in. Another was brought to me on the 9th of 

 December following^ and one was shot in the same locality 

 on the 24th of November, 1914. 



131. Otocorys alpestris braiidti Diesser. 

 Otocorys sibirica D. & O. p. 315. 



Two very handsome male examples of the Siberian Horned 

 Lark were collected near Shanhaikuan at the beginning of 

 November 1912. I have another from Chihfeng in northern 

 Chihli, where the bird apparently winters. The latter 

 example is darker and brov.ner grey above than in the 

 Shanhaikuan specimens; it is also somewhat larger. The 

 wings in the three examples measure 4'20, 4'25, and 4"30in. 

 respectively^ 



132. Melanocorypha mongolica (Pallas). 

 Melcmocorypha inuiigolica D. & O. p. 319, pi. 



The Mongolian (Jalandra Lark is not usually of common 

 occurrence in this vicinity. On the 14th and 15th of Novem- 

 ber, 1914, however, myriads of these birds Hew over, from an 

 easterly or east-north-easterly direction going west. Flocks 

 upon flocks composed of hundreds of these handsome birds 



