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observed in the Vicinity of Wei Hai Wei. 
The eggs vary from 1*35 to T17 in length and from 
*95 to ‘87 in breadth, and the average of seventy-six eggs is 
1*27 x-92. 
tEgialitis curonica. 
The Lesser .Ringed Plover is not uncommon in Shantung, 
hut on the seaboard it is much scarcer and more local than 
the Kentish Plover. As in Europe, this species shews a 
preference for the neighbourhood of fresh water, and it 
does not often nest close to the sea. The birds are found 
in scattered pairs or in small communities. The breeding- 
season about Wei H ai Wei may be said to extend from 
about May 20th to June 10th. 
Twenty eggs from Shantung average 1*14 X *85, and vary 
in length from 1*20 to P08 and in width from -88 to *84. 
Strepsilas interpres. 
Turnstones were observed on their northward journey at 
Leu Kung Tao at the end of May, and in greater numbers 
on their southern migration early in September, at a point 
on the coast opposite Kyming Island. 
Ppialaropus hyperboreus. 
The only occasion on which Red-necked Phalaropes were 
seen about Wei Hai Wei was on August 14th, 1902, when 
a flock of six settled on a small pool of fresh water near 
Kyming Island. These birds had still a great deal of red 
on their necks. 
ScOLOPAX RUSTICULA. 
Woodcocks occur both going north in spring and coming 
back in autumn. At the time of the spring-passage they 
are, as a rule, very fat and lazy and shew poor sport, but in 
October, on the southern passage, they are no easier to shoot 
than elsewhere. 
Gallinago ccelestis. 
The Common Snipe occurs in large numbers about Wei 
Hai Wei on the spring and autumn migrations. The Snipe 
come in as early as the first week in August, and continue 
to do so in flocks of various sizes, until the latter part of 
