252 KOREA. 



of Ojika frequently resorted for trawling and other 

 modes of fishing ; — a jar which he showed me had been 

 brought up in one of the trawls not long since. It was 

 an old earthenware vessel, covered with barnacles and 

 other shell-fish. On asking the Japanese for a fisher- 

 man to point out the spot, a man was at once sent. 

 The first day proved unsuccessful, but on the second I 

 found the shoal, with exactly the depth of water on it 

 that they had said, namely, eighteen feet. 



It was among these islands that I heard the Japanese 

 nightingale; it usually commenced singing about twelve 

 at night, and continued doing so until morning. I have 

 also heard them during the day. Their note is more 

 peculiar than melodious, rather short and spasmodic, 

 and their plumage is a dull slate-brown colour. I 

 shot a goat-sucker, I suppose Caprimulgus Asiaticiis, 

 which bird I do not think I saw in any other part of 

 Japan. About the end of April great numbers of 

 albatross and shearwater appeared to arrive ; whimbrel 

 and snipe made their appearance, and cormorants were 

 breeding on the cliffs of the out-lying rocks and islets. 

 A large species of swift is common on the northern 

 island ; one I shot was twenty inches and a half from 

 tip to tip. Another kind, resembling our own bird, 

 I got specimens of; it has a white patch across the 



