The afternoon was spent in descending a small stream to the valley of the Yang-Tsing, to which is attached a number of rice & corn, many villages, the largest Yang tsing Hsien. The camp was pitched in the middle of the first valley on the riverside near Chin-t'ung. During stop settings in the valley I flushed a quail the only one I have seen in China. A jay hawk perched on telegraph pole saw it at once & caught it killed it, I did not see hawk after it had carried its prey some distance & it departed leaving the dead quail in the field where I found it later. (19) Although the valley is a level stretch of rice fields with broad stream in the middle we saw no ducks were seen to. The trap failed to catch any mice few runaways of rodents were seen. The flora looks somewhat tropical different. I have seen only 4 few species & these are all