658 Staff-Surgeon K. H. Jones on Birds 
To tlie east of Wei Hai Wei, and twenty-six miles away, 
is a bold headland formed by a mass of high land, bordered 
to the seaward by tall but crumbling cliffs, and known as the 
North-East Promontory, or Shantung Promontory, the 
most easterly land of China proper. 
The North-East Promontory is separated from the other 
high land of the peninsula by a sandy plain of considerable 
size, on which are numerous small and several large fresh¬ 
water lagoons. 
A few miles to the north and west of Shantung 
Promontory is Alceste Island, of small size, but possessing 
considerable cliffs, and of interest as a breeding-place of 
Larus crassirost7'is, the Bar-tailed Gull. 
Eight miles to the westward of Alceste Island and at 
about a mile from the coast, is Kiming Island, considerably 
larger than the former and presenting tine cliffs on its 
seaward aspect. 
Just opposite Kiming Island the mouth of a very large 
and shallow salt-water tidal lagoon opens into the sea, the 
shores of which in early autumn are thronged with Waders 
journeying south. 
Some thirty miles to the south of North-East Promontory 
is South-East Promontory, situated on the island of Mur 
Tau and to the north side of Shi Tao Bay. At both North 
and South-East Promontories are placed powerful lights, 
which at the right seasons of the year attract immense 
numbers of migrants. 
The country in the vicinity of Wei Hai Wei is hilly, 
barren, and rocky. The hills, which, on the mainland 
opposite to Leu Kung Tao, rise to a height of 1343 feet, 
are very rocky and barren, but planted in some places with 
small pines and scrub oaks. The valleys are scored with 
nullahs, worn away by the torrents which flow down from 
the hills in the rainy season. 
The country is very badly wooded, almost the only trees 
which attain any size, except just round the villages, are 
those left to grow to maturity for semi-religious reasons. 
Eirs, Oaks, and Willows form the majority of those small 
