On the Birds of South-Eastent Cli'ma. 17 



IV. — The Birds of Hong Kong, Macao, and the IVest River or 

 Si Kiang in South-East China, loith spei^ial reference to 

 their Nidification and Seasonal Movements. By Lieutenant 

 R. E. Vaughan, R.N., M.B.O.U., and StafF-Surgeon K, 

 H. Jones, M.B., R.N,, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



(Plate IV.) 



In no part of China have Europeans been permanently- 

 settled so long, and with no part so continually in touch, as 

 with the littoral of the great south-eastern Province of 

 Kwang Tung. It follows that a considerable number of 

 naturalists have at various times visited Hong Kong, 

 Macao, and the great southern metropolis Canton, together 

 with their environs ; and several ornithologists have added 

 their quota to our information of the avifauna of the district. 



The great naturalist Swinhoe^ was at Hong Kong, and 

 visited Canton and Macao, from February to May 1860, and 

 contributed his results to ' The Ibis ' in a charming and 

 characteristic article, which, considering the time at his 

 disposal, manifests that he displayed his usual energy in the 

 pursuit of his favourite study. 



Another naturalist, Mr. J. C. Kershaw f, who, although to 

 some considerable extent an ornithologist, would perhaps 

 consider himself to be an entomologist, has contributed a list 

 of the birds of the Kwang Tung coast to this periodical. 

 This list was regrettably curtailed by want of space, but is 

 perhaps the most complete at present published. 



The writers of the folloMing notes have enjoyed excep=? 

 tional facilities for observing the birds of this part of China 

 over a considerable number of years, and of these they 

 fully availed themselves. Ample leisure in the open air is 

 essential to an understanding of the habits of the birds of 

 any country, and this they have had. 



* " Notes on the Ornithology of Hongkong, Macao, and Canton, made 

 during the latter end of February, March, Apri and the beginning of 

 May, 1860." 'Ibis,' 1861, pp. 23-57. 



t " List of the Birds of the Quangtung Coast, China." ' Ibis,' 1904, 

 pp. 235-248. 



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