16 Mr. J. D. D. La Touche—Freld-Notes on 
Falcon strays down to Fohkien, where Rickett and I each 
procured an example, as noted in the ‘Ibis’ (1903, p. 218). 
160. Turtur ruPicota (Pall.). 
Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 498; La Touche & Rickett, Ibis, 
1905, p. 57. 
Abundant and resident, appearing in flocks on the plain 
during winter. It breeds throughout the spring and probably 
right through the summer. Nine eggs taken on April 25, 
May 5 and 14, and July 11 and 13 average 132% 0:07 4 
They range in length from 1:29” to 1°36”, and in breadth 
from 0°95’ to 1’... The eggs of this Dove are oval, 
generally with one end pointed. 
161. TurTUR CHINENSIS (Scop.). 
Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 498; La Touche & Rickett, Ibis, 
1905, ip. 27. 
Abundant and resident. I have obtained eggs all through 
the spring and summer. On May 24 I found a Dove of this 
kind sitting on two much-incubated eggs in an old nest of 
Dryonastes perspicillatus placed on a bamboo some twelve 
feet above the ground. A nest with two fresh eggs, found 
on May 29, was built in the upright fork formed by the two 
main boughs of a tree. It was fully exposed to view and 
was practically suspended between the two branches. 
162. Paasianus rorquatus (Gm.). 
Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 499. 
The Ring-necked Pheasant is still abundant in some 
favoured localities near Chinkiang, but the native pot- 
hunters and the peasants have almost extirpated it in the 
near neighbourhood of the city by shooting it during close 
time and taking theeggs. Pheasants found above Chinkiang 
at a place called Icheng, on the north bank of the river, 
nearly always have the white ring perfect, the rump and 
upper tail-coverts clear greyish green, and the tail very long 
and narrowly barred. Those shot about Chinkiang and below 
nearly always have the white ring incomplete and the tail 
generally coarsely barred. One example shot near Chinkiang 
has a buff-coloured ground to the scapulars, 
