16 COMMON BIRDS OF THE YANGTZE DELTA. 



This completes the list of the most common birds 

 noted at Soochow, Chinkiang and Kiangyin. Carefully 

 mounted and named specimens of each bird noted can be 

 seen in the Museum of the Royal Asiatic Society in Shanghai, 

 and a few hours of thoughtful study there will be a more 

 effective aid to identification than months of reading. For 

 those who wish to carry the study further, several technical 

 lists are available, though the only book which gives a full 

 treatment of Chinese birds as such, is an old French work, 

 now out of print and quite difficult to obtain. Chinese bird- 

 lovers are still waiting for some competent ornithologist to 

 give us a popular key to the birds of China, similar to those 

 which have done so much to encourage the study of birds in 

 the home land. 



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