432 Mr. R. Swinhoe’s Ornithological Notes made at Chefoo. 
splashed with reddish cream obscurely barred with brown; the 
sides and belly barred with reddish brown ; the tibials more 
closely and narrowly with a greyer hue of same; the under 
tail washed with white and barred with narrow bars of brown ; 
the vent a pure white. Total length of skin about 13 inches; 
of wing 7i; of tail 6*3. 
The same good friend sent me a few days before a young 
male in the immature plumage. This had the iris also plain 
yellow and the legs much greener than in the adult. 
I cannot, I am sorry to say, speak with certainty as to 
whether this species breeds about Chefoo. I never saw it 
so engaged; the ardent native falconers were never met with 
young birds in training; and the immature birds had plenty of 
time to be on their return migration from the Corea, or Mant- 
churia. The organs examined of the spring arrivals were well 
advanced; and it is not impossible that a few halt en route to 
carry out the golden law, while the majority of their race push 
northwards. 
10. Brown Hairy-footed Owl. Ninox japonicus (Temm. 
& Schleg. Faun. Japon.). 
On the 13th May, when rambling through the <( Bois de 
Boulogne,” we put up two of this Owl. They flapped to the 
cover of neighbouring trees. My Chinese servant went after 
them with a gun; but the birds were too sharp for him. These 
Owls were on their northward migration, and on the 21st Mr. 
Campbell sent me one from the Lighthouse island. It was a 
male and measured 12 inches; wing 8’3, first quill 1*9 shorter 
than the second, which is *6 shorter than the third, which 
with the fourth are the longest; wing-tip falls 1*2 short of 
tail and 1*8 longer than the tertiaries. Tail 5*3 long, of 12 
nearly equal feathers. Cere and bill greenish. Iris yellow. 
Feet yellow, sprinkled on their upper surface with bristles, 
and covered on their soles with thickly packed long yellow 
papillae. Claws long, sharp and black. Tarse bare only round 
the ankle; middle toe 1*2, its claw ’55. 
On the 28th Mr. Carles, from the Legation at Pekin, who 
was staying with me, went to the Bois de Boulogne ” and 
