426 Mr. R. Swinhoe's Ornithological Notes made at Chefoo. 
dozen specimens. Quails were arriving in large numbers; and 
many were daily caught and brought to market for sale, both 
for food and for fighting-purposes. 
On the 9th May Mr. Campbell, of the lighthouse, sent me 
a female Oyster-catcher, and a few days after (15th) the male. 
In the female the remiges begin to show white on the shaft 
of the first quill ; in the male on the shaft of the third. 
Neither has any indication of a white collar on the neck. 
The characters best to be relied on for a discrimination of this 
species from its European ally, H. ostralegus , are the great 
length of bill, and the black spots at tips of upper tail-coverts. 
The Rev. W. Corbett, an American missionary at Chefoo, 
lent me a manuscript work by a Chinese, in four volumes, 
containing illustrations by hand of birds, beasts, fishes, in¬ 
sects, and plants. The work was picked up at an old book¬ 
stall by the reverend gentleman. It had neither title nor 
authors name, no preface, and no date. The drawings are 
coloured, and most of them life-size and recognizable, and are 
intended apparently to illustrate the natural objects that the 
artist has from time to time met with at Chefoo. The author 
probably intended to publish the work, but for want of funds 
disposed of the manuscript in the unfinished state it came 
into our hands. I have found it useful in supplying native 
names to many birds. I refer to it in the following notes as 
‘MS. Illustrations/ 
We left Chefoo on the 20th October, as it was advised that 
we should fly its winter's cold. Its summer is insufferably 
hot, depending on the sea-breezes for refreshment; its winter, 
on the other hand, is extremely cold, and the gales from the 
sea very biting. It is true that it is open to shipping, and 
that the Pekin mails are landed there for overland carriage 
when the Peiho is frozen up ; but now and again it is so cold 
that the harbour extending to the islands becomes one sheet 
of solid ice. 
1. Osprey. Pandion haliaetus (L.). 
Mr. A. Michie, of Shanghai, on a visit to me, went out on 
the 15th October, and brought back a male of this species. 
