424 Mr. R. Swinhoe's Ornithological Notes made at Chefoo. 
sistance, ancl, as will be seen, has done good service to 
science-. 
Until the middle of May a few Gulls were about, which I 
made out to be Larus niveus and L. crassirostris, a few Ducks 
rested about the bays, (Edemia fusca and Glaucion clangula , 
and a pair or two of Cormorants would fly past with out¬ 
stretched necks. 
On the 30th of April the market contained a Woodcock 
and a Spring Snipe ( Gallinago meg ala), and on the 2nd May 
a live female Bustard ( Otis tarda); but the game-season was 
past, and it was for fish that I had to visit the market. On the 
3rd May three young Eagle Owls {Bubo maximus), just balls 
of down, were brought to me. They all belonged to one nest. 
They uttered a jingling cry when suddenly laid hold of, and 
clicked their bills at you when approached. Eagle Owls 
appear to breed throughout the hilly portions of the China 
coast. I have procured young birds so far south as Amoy, at 
Ningpo, and here again at Chefoo. 
Anxious to get a view of the country, I took a sedan to 
where the hill-range slopes down to the west beach. The 
slope is exposed to the north and covered with trees planted, 
park-like, at some distance from each other; but such is the 
strength of the gales that blow, that the soil up the hill and 
for miles about is covered many inches deep with sand, and 
the trees seem to spring from a desert of sand, while the grass 
may be seen in vain struggling through to get a peep at the 
daylight. As the wood extends to the rear of the hills vege¬ 
tation becomes more prominent, and the trees attain finer 
proportions and at length yield good timber round about 
some farms. This is a pretty park-like locality, and is known 
here by the lovers of picnics as the “ Bois de Boulogne.” Buds 
were now bursting into leaf, and the sibilant call of the far-tra- 
travelling Yellow-browed Warbler (. Reguloides superciliosus) 
was frequently heard, and its tiny form seen springing about 
the boughs in pursuit of insects revivified by the returning 
warmth. I saw no other Warblers. Tomtits {Parus minor) 
were numerous, and noisy with their nuptial call-notes. 
Magpies chattered about; and almost every tall Salisburia 
