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under my notice have certainly belonged to the latter species, 
which is also an inhabitant of the Malay peninsula, Sumatra, 
and Java. 
I am yours, &c., 
J. H. Gurney. 
83 Carlyle Square, S.W. 
February 21,1874. 
Sir,—I should like to make a correction or two to my paper 
on Chinese ornithology, sent from Shanghai, and published in 
f The Ibis 5 for last October. At page 364 I have reported 
that I got in the market a Circus cineraceus. This, on closer 
examination, I find to he a male C. melanoleucus in the 
light reddish brown immature dress, a state in which the 
bird does not appear to have been procured before. This 
plumage has neither been described nor figured. I have never 
met with Montagu's Harrier myself in China, nor have I any 
evidence of its occurrence within our limits. 
At page 366 I suggest that JEthyia ferina, or the “ Ferru¬ 
ginous Duck," should he expunged from the Chinese list of 
birds, as it had never occurred to me. Mr. A. Michie, of 
Shanghai, writes and describes a Duck which has lately 
been brought to him at Shanghai from the Taihoo Lake in 
some numbers. His description tallies precisely with that of 
this species. So my suggestion falls through. 
When passing through Shanghai a few months back, Mr. 
Triggs, of Lane, Crawford, & Co., presented me with the skin 
of an adult male and of an immature male of Pelecanus crispus 
which he had shot a week before on the river close to Shanghai. 
I was aware of the existence of this species in China, but 
never procured specimens before. 
I am, yours truly, 
Robert Swinhoe. 
33 Carlyle Square, S.W. 
March 7,1874. 
Sir, —It will be interesting to some of the readers of f The 
Ibis' to learn that the bird described by Radde in his f Reisen 
