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BIRD-LIFE. 
are content to migrate to the southern districts of 
that country: a few pass through without stopping the 
winter. China is, in this respect, like Europe, its northern 
portion resembling our north, and its southern tracts the 
three peninsulas of the Mediterranean and its southern 
coast-lands. 
According to Jerdon, ‘ History of the Birds of India/ 
the following species pass the winter there :—Peregrine 
Falcon, Hobby Hawk, Kestrel, Red-footed Falcon, 
Sparrow Hawk, Hen Harrier, Marsh Harrier, Short¬ 
eared Owl, Scops-eared Owl, Common Swallow, Martin, 
Sand Martin, Common and Alpine Swift, Goatsuckers, 
Bee-eaters, Roller, Cuckoo, Hoopoe, Rock Thrush, Red- 
throated Thrush, Black-throated Thrush, Naumann’s 
Thrush, Redwing, Fieldfare, Stonechat, Redstart, Swedish 
Redstart, many of the North Asiatic Sedge Warblers, 
Willow and other Wrens, Gray Wagtails, Yellow Wagtails, 
Tree Pipit, Richard’s Pipit, Red-breasted Pipit, Rook, 
Common Starling, Sardinian Starling, Rose-coloured 
Pastor, Black-headed Bunting, Meadow Bunting, Little 
Bunting, Scarlet Bullfinch, Mountain Finch,' Short-toed 
Lark, Quail, Pratincole, many different species of Plovers, 
Demoiselle Cranes, Common Crane, Woodcocks, Jack 
Snipe, Ibis, Curlews, Ruff and Reeves, Dunlin, Little 
Stint and other allied species, almost all the shore birds 
which are to be met with in Germany, Godwits, Black 
Stork, White Stork, Spotted Crakes, Moorhens, Coots, 
Graylag Geese, Lesser White-fronted Goose, Pink-footed 
Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus ), Ruddy Shieldrake, Wild 
Duck, Gadwall, Wigeon, Teal, Garganey, Bimaculated 
Duck, Red-crested Whistling Duck, Pochard, Scaup Duck, 
Tufted Duck, Goosander, Merganser and Smew, Great- 
crested Grebe, Black-headed Gull, Great Black-headed 
