422 Mr. R. Swinhoe^s Ornithological Notes made at Chefoo. 
The following are the measurements of the present species 
compared with those of specimens of Acrocephalus dumetorum 
and A palustris in my collection :— 
Cul- 
men. 
Grape. 
Wing. 
Tail. 
Tarsus. 
Hind 
toe, 
with 
claw. 
Hind 
claw. 
Acrocephalus sogdianensis. 
0*22 
Kokand. Type. 
0-7 
0-74 
3 c 0 
2-4 
0-85 
0*45 
Acrocephalus palustris. 
0*18 
Westphalia, . 
0-6 
0*62 
2*62 
2*2 
0*85 
0*48 
Antwerp . 
0-62 
0-68 
2-72 
2*32 
0-9 
0-5 
0 22 
Halle, Saxony. $ .... 
0-6 
0-65 
2-65 
2-2 
0*87 
0*5 
0*22 
Piedmont. $ . 
0*6 
065 
2-65 
2*18 
0-9 
0*5 
0*22 
Acrocephalus dumetorum. 
Ekaterinburg . 
0-62 
0-7 
2-41 
2*15 
0-85 
0*46 
0*22 
)) • .. 
0-62 
0-7 
2-41 
2-1 
0*9 
0-46 
0*22 
. 
0-63 
0-68 
2-35 
2*15 
0-9 
0*5 
0*25 
S. Ural. <$ . 
0-68 
0-7 
2-38 
2*2 
0-9 
0*49 
0*25 
Etawah, India. 
Ahmenuggur, India. § • 
0-65 
07 
2-4 
2*25 
0*88 
0-5 
0*25 
0-65 
0-7 
2-4 
2*25 
0-9 
0*48 
0*22 
XLIII .—Ornithological Notes made at Chefoo (.Province of 
Shantung , North China). By R. Swinhoe, H.M. Consul. 
(Plate XIY.) 
I arrived at Chefoo on the 25th April, too late for the game- 
market, but in time to catch the inflow of the later migrant 
land-birds. Few English readers will probably know where 
Chefoo is ; so it will be as well to say something of its position 
on the globe before proceeding to give my ornithological ex¬ 
periences there. The northward coast-line of China ends at 
the Shantung promontory; and the land now bearing west¬ 
wards discovers at a distance of about sixty-eight miles the 
little harbour called Yentai by the Chinese, which was opened 
to foreign trade by the Treaty of Tientsin of 1860 ? as more 
accessible to shipping than the port of Tengchow city (named 
in the treaty), which is situate about forty miles further west 
on the coast, and within the Prefecture of which this locality 
is included. The French Expedition rendezvoused here in 
1860, while the British gathered their forces in Tazienwan (of 
