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not remain long; they almost all continue their journey 
south at once. 
Terpsiphone inch. 
The Chinese Paradise Flycatcher occurs on migration, and 
was observed at North-East Promontory and at Wei Hai 
Wei early in September. 
At Leu Rung Tao one of these birds flew into a sitting- 
room, apparently attracted by a light. 
Hirundo gutturalis. 
The Common Swallow of the East is abundant about Wei 
Hai Wei, where it breeds under the eaves of houses like its 
Western representative. Although the Chinese regard these 
birds as lucky, they do not protect them so rigidly in 
Shantung further south, and there is no great difficulty 
in obtaining their eggs. In the last week of September 
Swallows begin to congregate on the roofs and telegraph- 
wires, and sometimes on the rocks by the sea-shore, previous 
to their southern migration, The great majority have de¬ 
parted by the first week in October, two months later than 
in Hong Kong. 
The nests are similar to those of Hirundo rustica , and the 
eggs are laid, in Shantung, towards the end of May and in 
June ; four or five eggs form the usual clutch. 
Thirty eggs from Shantung average ’74 x *52 inch, and 
vary in length from *82 to '70 inch and in width from ’56 
to *48 inch, 
Hirundo striolata. 
This Swallow is a very common bird about Wei Hai Wei, 
and, like Hirundo gutturalis, frequents native houses in the 
most familiar manner. 
In some years this species seems to leave Shantung earlier 
than the Eastern Common Swallow, but perhaps, as a rule, 
it takes its departure a little later. It may be that the date 
depends, to a considerable extent, on the ability of the young 
to migrate, for as late as the first week in October, 1907, 
