918 Mr. J. D. D. La 'louche on the [IWis, 



A number winter in tlie vicinity. It is, as elsewhere in 

 Cliina, a very common bird. The female is much used by 

 natives for hawking quail in autumn. The birds, when not 

 fully trained, are flovvn with a string attached to their jesses. 

 The string is neatly wound on a bobbin enclosed within an 

 open wire case. The falconers generally go in couples 

 or small pai'ties ; one man beating the cover with a stick. 

 On a l)ird being flushed the hawk is thrown at it and almost 

 always catches the quarry after a very short flight. The 

 hawks are not hooded. One of these trained hawks, which 

 had escaped, once attacked some caged birds which were 

 hanging in our verandah and was easily captured by offering- 

 it some food. After attempting to snatch the meat from my 

 hand and to fly away with it, it settled on a portion of a hare 

 I was holding out and was thus caught. 



174-. Accipiter gularis T. cS: S. 



Accipiter viryatus D. & 0. [>. 26 (part). 



The Japanese Sparrow-Hawk ap[)ears to be common during 

 September and the early half of October. It is often caught 

 by the natives and trained to catch quail and small birds. 

 A live example was obtained on the 2nd of September^ 1915. 

 It was a young male of the year with the under parts deeply 

 tinged with buff. The iris was of a yellowish emerald- 

 green. 



175. Pernis apivorus orientalis Tacz. 



Pernis apivorus D. & O. p. 18. 



Pernis elliotti La Touche, Ibis, 1913, p. 279. 



An old, much torn skin of a Honey-Buzzard was seen on 

 the 21st of March, 1913, hanging in a shop in the market. 

 I did not examine it closely, but it appeared to be the skin 

 of an Indian Honey-Buzzard, which is the species found on 

 the China coast and no doubt also in Japan. I saw at 

 Chinwangtao, on the lOth of September, 1912, and again 

 four days afterwards, large hawks flying overhead which I 

 took to be lloney-Buzzards. I saw another at the marshes 

 on the 16th of Septembei', 1915, which appeared to be the 

 same. 



