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Staff-Surgeon K. II. Jones on Birds 
Caccabis chukar. 
The Chukar Partridge occurs very sparingly in the hills 
about Wei Hai Wei, but is probably a resident. No doubt 
the natives trap it to such an extent that it is almost exter¬ 
minated. I only once met with it, on September the 14th, 
1901, when about ten or a dozen were observed together at 
Mahto. 
Swinhoe met with this species at Chefoo, and it occurs also 
about Shi Tao, but somewhat rarely. 
CoTURNIX COMMUNIS. 
Quails occur about Wei Hai Wei only on passage, and 
probably pass northward fairly early in the year. About 
the third or fourth week in September they began to put in 
an appearance on the return journey, but w r ere never noticed 
in any numbers, and usually in pairs or two or three at a 
time. At Shi Tao these birds were found well on into 
October. 
At Chefoo Swinhoe obtained from native bird-catchers 
examples of the local race known as Coturnix japonicus, to 
which most of the Quails occurring on migration probably 
belong. 
Turnix blanfordi. 
Blanford’s Ilemipode is a common summer visitor to the 
Shantung Peninsula, and is known to the Chinese as the 
Yellow Quail. 
Probably most of the birds arrive in May, and a large 
number remain to breed. In the autumn the ranks of 
this species are largely augmented by the incursion of 
migrants from more northerly breeding-stations. The first 
arrivals appear as early as the beginning of September, and 
a specimen killed by a Peregrine was observed on the sea¬ 
shore on the 3rd of that month. 
The nest, in Shantung, appears to be always made in 
a corn-field, and it is, therefore, only when the sickle is put 
to the crop that the nest is discovered. 
The earliest date for eggs is June 10th and the latest 
