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A regular winter visitant. 



2. Pandion Jialiaetus, (L.) ? 



Lives on the rocks at the mouth of the harbour and comes occa- 

 sionally to Amoy, but is very shy and unapproachable. I have 

 never been able to procure a specimen. 



3. Falco peregrinus, (L.) 



Breeds in the neighbourhood and is not unfrequent. 



4. JLypotriorchis subbuteo, (L.) 



Bare. 



5. Tinnuncidus alaudarius, Brisson. 



A common resident. 



6. Milvus govinda, Sykes, var. melanotis, Gray. Faun. Japon* 



[Ante, p. 95.] 

 Very common, especially in the harbour. 



7. Accipiter nisus, (L.) ? 



Bare. Differs from the European bird chiefly in having white 

 axillaries, as well as in many minor points. 



8. Micronisus badius, Gmelin. 



Beceived from Fouchow, and shot in Amoy, November of this 

 year. 



8. Circus cyaneus, (L.) 



Pretty common. 



9. Circus csruginosus, (L.) 



Very common up the rivers. 



10. Ninox scutellatus, (Baffles.) 



A straggling winter visitant, common in summer at Fouchow 

 where it breeds. The immature plumage is brown, banded with 

 ochreous. 



11. Bubo maximus, Sibbald. 



Occasionally seen of a winter's evening. Breeds somewhere in the 

 neighbourhood, as every early spring the young are sold in the 

 streets of the town. 



12. Ephialtes bakhamcena, Pennant. 



Bare. I procured two one winter, one mottled brown on the 

 upper-parts, the other mottled buff ; the first I take to be the 

 immature plumage, as both these examples were females. Mr. 



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