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for another stoop, one of the men fired. The bird thereupon 
flew to a tree some little way off, where it was joined by its 
mate; the pair made a great outcry, but did not approach 
the nest again. The natives say that these Eagles are very 
destructive to their fowls and ducks. 
An adult <£, shot in December, measured in the flesh :— 
Length 27 inches, wing 18*5, tail 12, tarsus 3*6, culmen 
(from cere) 1*3. Its crop contained a small snake. 
7* 22. Haliastur indus (Bodd.). 
La Touche obtained a specimen once in August (Ibis, 
1887, p. 234). I never came across the species till my man 
shot a female in July 1898, and a male in the following 
May. 
It is strange that it should be so rare a straggler here, 
as Styan states that it comes to breed in small numbers at 
Kinkiang (Ibis, 1891, p. 490). David also notes it as breeding 
in Kiang-si. 
f 23. Anser cygnoides Ball. 
La Touche (Ibis, 1892, p. 491) mentions the probable 
occurrence of this Goose at Foochow. Last November I 
received the heads and necks of two shot at Sam-slia Bay 
(an inlet a few miles to the north of the mouth of the 
Min). One of these has a broad whitish band round the 
base of the upper mandible, the other has no trace of such 
a band. 
7 24. Anser albifrons Scop, 
I have two specimens, shot in October and November. 
The latter ( $) measured in the flesh :—Length 26 inches, 
wing 16, tail 6, tarsus 2*4, culmen 1*9. 
With the exception of Anser segetum, Geese are very 
uncommon about Foochow. 
25. Dendrocygna javanica (Horsf.). 
I recorded a specimen obtained herein f Ibis/ 1894, p. 225. 
It w r as apparently (from its dull colouring) an immature bird. 
Last November a fine bright-plumaged male w r as shot near 
the mouth of the river. It measured in the flesh :—Length 
16‘5 inches, wing 7*5, tail 2*5, tarsus 1*8, culmen 1*6. 
