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observed about Talien Bay (N. China), 
The young have a strong wash of yellow over the predomina¬ 
ting brown. They are freckled on the wing and tail-coverts 
with yellowish white, and the back and rump in parts are ob¬ 
scurely striated with a darker hue. The brown spots that mark 
the centre of feathers in the older individuals are here very in¬ 
distinct, and the pectoral spots do not show themselves. The 
long crest is very apparent. 
Bill pale horn-colour, brown along the culmen; angle and 
inside of mouth yellow. Irides brown. Legs and claws very 
light flesh-ochre. 
This species is very distinct from the Alauda japonica , which 
occurs in abundance in the plains of the Peiho; and I have 
named it after the Province of Leautung into a peninsula of 
which the bay flows. 
13. Sturnus cineraceus, Schlegel. 
This bird occurred here in flocks feeding in the open coun¬ 
try, and roosting at night in the trees that grouped themselves 
about the hamlets. Prom the number of young birds in the 
flocks I infer that they spent the summer here for the purposes 
of nidification, and thence on the approach of winter betake 
themselves further south, and speed down the coast as far as 
Canton. 
Yearling. Bill liver-brown with a wash of blackish. Inside 
of mouth yellowish. Legs clay-colour. All the dark parts of 
the adult plumage are in the young yellowish or light liver- 
brown; some of the feathers, especially on the head, being 
margined paler. The top of the head, freckles on the cheek, 
quills, and tail-feathers of a darker brown. The throat is whitish. 
At the commencement of winter this plumage becomes darker, 
and then attains to what is called “ la livree de passage ” in the 
‘ Fauna Japonica/ from which to the full summer garb is but a 
step. 
14. Corvus (Monedula) dauricus, Pallas. 
At the bottom of Talien Bay there is a creek with a flat rock, 
some eighty feet high, standing at its mouth. The side of this rock 
that faces the main, and the main itself, are very precipitous, 
jagged all over with broken fragments of rock, and rent in 
