678 Staff-Surgeon K. H. Jones on Birds 
The Chinese esteem this species highly for hawking, and 
with it kill a good deal of game in certain places. 
About the last week of September, and particularly at 
North-East Promontory, Peregrine Falcons occur in very 
large numbers and a dozen may be seen at one time on the 
wing there. They find abundant quarry among the other 
migrants and seem particularly fond of ducks. 
These Peregrines are not at all shy, and at Shi Tao, in 
October, one settled in the rigging of H.M.S. f Waterwitch/ 
whence it made repeated dashes at the Gulls flying round 
the ship. 
Falco subbuteo. 
The Hobby was only once obtained—near the North-East 
Promontory, on September 23rd. This bird was evidently 
on migration : its stomach was full of the elytra and other 
chitinous parts of various Coleoptera. It was an adult 
female, and in beautiful condition. 
Falco amukensis. 
The Eastern Red-footed Falcon was, during the summer, by 
far the commonest Hawk met with in the Shantung Peninsula. 
This species loves the sandy wastes which border the Gulf 
of Pechili and the Yellow Sea in so many places, and there 
it finds abundance of the grasshoppers and sand-lizards on 
which it chiefly preys, the birds’ crops often containing 
immense quantities. 
This bird is very Kestrel-like in its habits, and hovers when 
about to make a stoop in exactly the same way as Falco 
tinnunculuSj while its cry is very similar. 
The Chinese, who are, about Wei Hai Wei, great sports¬ 
men, not infrequently train the birds for hawking, and fly 
them at Sparrows and other small game. 
The nest of this species is always, apparently, placed in a 
tree and is never, like that of the Kestrel, situated in rocks. 
There is no doubt, however, that in the majority of cases 
this bird makes use of a deserted Magpie’s nest in which to 
lay its eggs, and, indeed, the Chinese assert that it always 
does so. 
