[197] John Gould, Century of Birds. London, 1831-32.
[198] On the birds of China, see in general Les Oiseaux de la Chine, par M. l’Abbé Armand David, avec un Atlas de 124 Planches dessinées et lith. par M. Arnoul. Paris, 1877. R. Swinhoe, in the Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoölogical Soc. of London, and in The Ibis, a Magazine of General Ornithology, passim. Journ. N. C. Br. R. A. Soc., Nos. II., p. 225, and III., p. 287.
[199] Chinese Repository, Vol. VII., p. 213. Compare Yule’s note, Marco Polo, Vol. I., p. 232. Huc, Travels in Tartary, etc., Vol. II., p. 246. Bell, Journey from St. Petersburgh in Russia to Ispahan in Persia, Vol. I., p. 216. Also Heeren, Asiatic Nations, Vol. I., p. 98, where there is a résumé of Ctesias’ account of the unicorn.
[200] Chinese Repository, Vol. VII., p. 250. For a careful analysis of this relic of ancient lore, see the Nouveau Journal Asiatique, Tome XII., pp. 232-243, 1833; also Tome VIII., 3d Series, pp. 337-382, 1839, for M. Bazin’s estimate of its value.
[201] Yule’s Marco Polo, Vol. II., p. 46.
[202] Vol. III., p. 445.
[203] Conspectus of collections made by Dr. Cantor, Chinese Repository, Vol. X., p. 434. General features of Chusan, with remarks on the Flora and Fauna of that Island, by T. E. Cantor, Annal. Nat. Hist., Vol. IX. (1842), pp. 265, 361, and 481. Journal As. Soc. of Bengal, Vol. XXIV., 1855.
[204] Hanbury’s notes on Chinese Materia Medica, 1862; Pharmaceutical Journal, Feb., 1862.
[205] Baron Richthofen’s Letters, No. VII., to Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, May, 1872, p. 52.
[206] Darwin, Naturalist’s Voyage, p. 35, notices a similar habit of the sphex in the vicinity of Rio Janeiro. The insect partially kills the spider or caterpillar by stinging, when they are stored in a rotting state with her eggs.