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between Takoo and Peking , North China. 
89. Chinese Oriole. Oriolus chinensis, Scop. 
Frequent in August and September. 
90. Lapland Turtle. Turtur orientalis (Lath.). 
The only Dove observed. It is found during winter all down 
the coast as far as Hongkong. 
91. Ring-necked Pheasant. Phasianus torquatus. 
We never met with these birds alive, but some were brought 
for sale to Tangkoo and Tientsin, and the natives assured us 
they were captured in the neighbourhood. 
92. Button Quail. Turnix dussumieri , Temminck. 
Identified by Mr. Blyth, and wrongly named in my Amoy list 
as T, jondera, Hodgson. One of this species was shot in 
September in a millet field. The same bird is found in spring 
all down the coast as far south as Hongkong. 
93. Quail. Coturnix dactylisonans. 
Very common, even as late as October, in which month 
immense flocks of them dropped in the neighbourhood of the 
Taku forts, evidently birds from more northerly parts bound south. 
94. Pallas’ Sand-Grouse. Sgrrhaptesparadoxus (Pall.). 
Your readers will be both surprised and delighted to hear of 
the abundant occurrence of this species during winter about the 
plains between Peking and Tientsin. Flocks of hundreds con¬ 
stantly pass over with a very swift flight, not unlike that of the 
Golden Plover, for which we at first mistook them. The market 
at Tientsin was literally glutted with them, and you could 
purchase them for a mere nothing. The natives called them 
“ Sha-chee ” or Sand-fowl, and told me they were mostly 
caught in clapnets. After a fall of snow their capture was 
greatest; for where the net was laid the ground was cleared 
and strewed with small green beans. The cleared patch was 
almost sure to catch the eyes of the passing flocks, who would 
descend and crowd into the snare. It only remained then for 
the fowler, hidden at a distance, to jerk the strings, and in his 
haul he would not unfrequently take the whole flock. Numbers, 
however, were shot with matchlocks. When on the ground they 
were rather shy and difficult of approach , but on the wing they 
