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Mr. C. Ingram on the 
118. Phalacrocorax, sp inc. Cormorant. 
At the junction of the Sungchiang and the Sungari Rivers, 
Sir E. James observed an enormous colony of Herons and 
Cormorants nesting together in willow-trees (‘The Long 
White Mountain/ p. 275). In a letter to me he describes 
these nests as being placed “ on trees growing in deep mud 
and bulrushes and were unapproachable. Some of the trees 
were so smothered with the birds* droppings that they seemed 
to have been killed.** These Cormorants were most likely 
Ph. carbo, but they may, of course, have been Ph. filamentosus 
(T. & S.). 
119. Ardea cinerea Linn. Common Heron. 
Tacz. p. 980; Dresser, p. 564. 
a. 3? Ean-chia Tun, Kirin Province. Sept. 10, 1908. 
In ‘ The Long White Mountain ’ (p. 274) Sir Evan 
James writes as follows :—“ Descending from the ridge, we 
passed through richly cultivated valleys till we reached the 
Sungchiang, one of the largest affluents of the Sungari. 
Near the junction was the finest heronry I ever saw. Thou¬ 
sands of Herons and Cormorants were nesting together in 
the willow-trees.** 
120. Botaurus stellaris (Linn.). Bittern. 
Tacz. p. 991 ; Dresser, p. 578. 
A male was shot at Yinko, April 7, 1901 ( Bianchi ). 
121. Anser segetum mentalis. Thick-billed Bean- 
Goose. 
Alpheraky, ‘ Geese of Eur. and Asia,* p. 130. 
This is a somewhat doubtful subspecies, of which seemingly 
only three skins are known to ornithologists—one from Japan 
(now in the British Museum, and Oates’s type), one from 
Bering Island, and lastly one from Yingtzu or Yinko, 
South Manchuria (not North Manchuria as stated by 
Alpheraky, p. 131, when referring to this bird). In his ‘Geese 
