23. GAERDXAX. 439 



series more ashy brown ; quills dark brown, externally olivaceous 

 browu ; the iuner secondaries entirely like the back ; upper tail- 

 coverts a little more fulvescent than the back ; tail-feathers brown, 

 the central tail-feathers ashy brown, the others washed on the edges 

 with the latter colour and broadly tipped with white, increasing in 

 extent towards the outermost feather, where the white extends 

 some distance up the inner web ; cro^ii of head and nape orange- 

 chestnut ; lores and feathers below the ej'e black ; ear-coverts dull 

 reddish brown ; cheeks and entire throat white ; centre of body 

 ashy whitish, becoming purer white on the abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts ; sides of body olivaceous brown, darker on the sides of the 

 breast, and paler and more fulvescent on the lower flanks and thighs ; 

 under wing-coverts ashy brown washed with fulvescent brown, the 

 axillaries white at the base ; quills dusky brown, ashy fulvous along 

 the margin of the inner web : '• bill black ; loral space round eye 

 and chin black " (SwuiJiol'). Total length 10-2 inches, culmen 1*05, 

 wing 4-9, tail 5, tarsus 0-8. 



Jlah. The central wooded range of mountains in the island of 

 Formosa, very rarely descending to the lower hills. 



a. Ad. sk. Formosa. R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 



fi. Garrulax albigularis. 



lanthocincla albigularis, Gould, P. Z. S. 18.35, p. 187. 



Cinclosoma albigula, Hodgs. Asiat. Research, xix. p. 146 (1836) ; id. 



Icon, ined., Passeres, pis. 16-3, 164 (no. 204). 

 Crateropus albogularis, Bli/th, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 179 (1842). 

 Garrulax albogularis, Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 1(33 ; BhjtJi, J. A. S. 



Benq. xii. p. 949 (1843), xiv. p. 598 (1844) ; &;•«//, Cat. Mamm. 



etc. 'Xejxdpres. Hodgs. p. 82 ^1846) ; id. Gen. B. i. p. 225 (1846); 



Bhjth, Cat. B. Mxs. As. Soc. p. 95 (1849); Bi). Co)isp.i. ^.2,71 



(1850) ; Cab. in Ersch Sf Gruber, Allq. Encycl. Band 55, p. 61 (1852) ; 



Horsf. df Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 202 (1854) ; Jerd. B. 



Ind. ii. p. .39 (1863) ; Grai/. Hand-l. B. i. p. 281, no. 41-55 (1869) ; 



Sicinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. *371 ; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. .303; Cock ^ 



Marsh. Str. F. 1873, p. 354 ; Hume, Nests and Eqgs Lid. B. 



p. 255 (1873) ; David Sf Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 193 (18"77) ; Hume, 



Str. F. 1879, p. 96 ; Scully, t. c. p. 289. 



Adult. General colour above warm olive-brovm, a little duller on 

 the head ; across the rump an indistinct bar of orange-buff ; least 

 wing-coverts like the back ; the median, greater, and primary-coverts 

 rather more ashy brown, washed externally with the same olive- 

 brown as the back ; bastard-wing feathers decidedly shaded with 

 ashy ; quills dark brown, externally olive-brown, the inner secon- 

 daries almost entirely of the latter colour, the primaries more or 

 less ashy grey exteruall}', olive-brown near the base of the outer 

 web ; tail-feathers ashy olive, all but the four centre ones very 

 broadly tipped with white ; the feathers of the crown with obsolete 

 dusky margins ; lores and nasal plumes, as well as the feathers 

 below the eye, blaclc, with a large mark of dull orange-rufous ex- 



