1860.] Orníthology of Amoy. 241 



A regular winter visitant. 



2. Pandion Jialia'étus, (L.) ? 



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

 sionally to Amoy, but is very shy and unapproacliable. I liave 

 never been able to procure a specimen. 



3. Falco per egrinus, (L.) 



Breeds in the neighbourliood and is not unfrequent. 



4. Hypotriorchis subbuteo, (L.) 



Eare. 



5. Tinnunculus alaudarius, Brisson. 



A common resident. 



6. Milvus govinda, Sykes, var. melanotis, Gray. Faun. Japón» 



[Ante, p. 95.] 

 Very common, especially in the harbour. 



7. Accipiter nisus, (L.) ? 



Bare. Differs from the European bird chiefly in having wliite 

 axillaries, as well as in many minor points. 



8. Micronisus iadius, Gmelin. 



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

 year. 



8. Oircus cyaneus, (L.) 



Pretty common. 



9. Oircus ceruginosus, (L.) 



Very common up the rivers. 



10. Ninox scutellatus, (Bafíles.) 



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 oí the town. 



12. Ejpliialtes bakJcamcena, Pennant. 



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

 upper-parts, the other mottled buíf ; the íirst I take to be the 

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



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