4 Mr. J. D. D. La Touche on the [Ibis, 
Two young birds were brought to me from the mountains 
on the 16th of July, 1917. They were still in the first 
nestling plumage and were unable to feed by themselves. 
The head, neck, wing-coverts, and mantle were of a rich deep 
brown, the feathers of the wing-coverts and mantle being 
edged with chestnut; the back was slate coloured and the 
breast chestnut-brown. The bill was of a very dark brownish 
horn. They retained this plumage until about September, 
when they changed gradually into adult plumage. They 
were fed without difficulty by hand with crushed kaoliang 
and small millet moistened with warm water, and remained 
very tame until they could feed by themselves, after which 
they would not allow one to handle them so freely. One of 
these birds developed an abnormal liking for raw beef, and I 
had to hide carefully the minced beef prepared for the other 
birds, as this dove would pounce on it and devour it all up. 
Sometimes, if it saw me distributing this food, it would fly 
down to snatch it from my hands. It would pursue the 
Cuckoo to get his meat from him. The other young dove 
was almost equally fond of bread and milk, and both birds 
would eagerly devour this when I gave them any. The meat 
appeared to disagree with the dove, and I prevented it from 
eating this as much as possible. On my leaving Chinwangtao 
I gave them liberty and had at first some difficulty in getting 
them to go out. The native who sold me these birds told 
me that one of the villagers had one which he had reared 
at liberty and which remained perfectly tame. 
The Eastern Turtle-Dove is very common in southern 
Manchuria and breeds at Newchwang. * 
186. Syrrhaptes paradoxus (Pall.). 
Syrrhaptes 'paradoxus D. & 0. p. 389. 
Pallas^s Sand-Grouse is of very irregular occurrence at 
Chinwangtao. In the very cold year of 1905, I believe, 
it was seen in great numbers, but since then it does not 
appear to have occurred until the autumn of 1912. That 
year, on the 10th of November, I met several flocks flying 
very swiftly towards the northeast. They flew low r as a rule, 
