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Staff-Surgeon K. H. Jones on Birds 
very powerful light on North-East Promontory doubtless 
attracts many birds to this place, particularly in stormy, 
cloudy weather. 
From North-East Promontory most of the birds seem to 
pass along the coast to the southward, until they reach the 
vicinity of Shi Tao, whence a considerable number appear to 
strike out across the sea towards the mouth of the Yangtze 
Kiang. 
Many migrants, however, arrive all along the coast 
between Wei Hai Wei and North-East Promontory, and 
doubtless towards Chefoo they are equally abundant. 
To this part of China the -writer of these notes made 
visits in 1901, 1902, and 1907 ; on the first two occasions 
in H.M.S. * Waterwitch/ a surveying-vessel, and on the last 
to the Royal Naval Sick Quarters on Leu Kung Tao. In 
1901 the f Waterwitch 3 was engaged in surveying at Wei 
H ai Wei, and in searching for a supposititious shoal in the 
Pechili Gulf, from September 4th to the 14th, and some 
notes made during these ten days are incorporated in this 
article, as they are of some ornithological interest. 
Whilst sheltering under the lee of a sandbank from a 
north-easterly gale in the neighbourhood of Taku, exceptional 
opportunities occurred for observing the migration of birds 
a 2 ross the Gulf of Pechili from Manchuria. The observations 
made at this time are noted under the various species 
concerned. 
In October 1901 a survey was also made of Shi Tao Bay, 
and there the arrival of many migrants was observed. 
At Shi Tao, the writer made the acquaintance of the late 
Mr. C. A. Schwilf, a sportsman-naturalist, to whom, in the 
course of a long subsequent correspondence, he is indebted 
for many interesting notes and specimens. 
In 1902 a survey of the coast of the Shantung Peninsula 
was made, as far to the west of Wei Hai Wei as White Rock, 
and to the east to the North-East Promontory and some 
ten miles to the south of it. In 1907 nearly all the notes 
were made either on Leu Kung Tao or cn the mainland 
immediately opposite. 
