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Mr. R. Swinhoe’s Notes on Ornithology 
known for his diligent researches in Chinese botany; and the 
insects to J. C. Bowring, Esq., the best entomologist, perhaps, 
this side of the Cape. 
On onr return to Tientsin we found the market well-stocked 
with wild fowl and other game at cheap rates; but it was diffi¬ 
cult to make the natives understand that I wanted the birds for 
their skins merely, and preferred clean and perfect specimens to 
those partly plucked in order to show their plumpness. 
I am sending the skins procured from the above-mentioned 
localities as well as those from Talienwan for the inspection of 
the Editor of * The Ibis/ that he may correct or add to my re¬ 
marks in any way he chooses*. 
1. Brahminy Kite. Milvus govinda , Sykes. 
A somewhat larger and stronger species than the southern bird, 
and much larger than the Indian form. 
2. Japanese Buzzard. Buteo japonicus, Schlegel. 
3^Eagle Buzzard. Buteo -?}* 
The female of this bird was procured at Tientsin in November. 
It was hooded and carried about on the fist of a Chinaman, who 
said he was training it for hunting hares. I saw another, a good 
deal resembling it, with a blue back, which I took for the male. 
A Chinese had it on his arm; but as we were on the march from 
Tientsin to Takoo, I was not able to purchase it. I never noticed 
it in a wild state. Cere yellow, legs pale yellow tinged with 
blue, claws black. 
4. Hen Harrier. Circus cyaneus (Linn.). 
Common about the marshes near Takoo in August. 
5. Pied Harrier. Circus - ? iluu . M ^ P S ? 
This is the species numbered 12 in my notes in f Ibis 9 for 
1860, p. 359, I have not yet succeeded in identifying the 
species, but I think it may be Circus hudsonius of America. 
I noticed it occasionally about the Takoo marshes at the same 
period as the foregoing. 
* These skins have not yet reached us; but we are unwilling to detain 
Mr. Swinhoe’s paper any longer, and will therefore give any observations 
we may have to make on them in a subsequent Number.— Ed. 
