i\Ir. R. Swinhoe on Furmosan Ornithology/. 315 



lotirostris, Raffl., of China, and not with my M. griseisticta ; 

 foi* Pallas speaks of it as having no spots on the breast, and of 

 M. albicilla nearly equalling it in size. 



While on the subject of Russian ornithologists, it will be as 

 well to mention that in glancing over Radde's ' Travels in South- 

 east Siberia ' I recognized a familiar friend on his Plate X. His 

 Lusciola cyane (Pall.) is our Larvivora gracilis from Amoy and 

 Tientsin. Unfortunately the Himalaya bird stands asL. cyana, 

 Hodgson. Hodgson has named the female L. brunnea; but the 

 name is not apt ; we must therefore, I suppose, take Dr. Jer- 

 don's name superciliaris for the Indian, and preserve Pallas^s 

 for the Chinese species. 



AYhat does Dr. Sclater say to Radde's Plate VIII ? Does he 

 consider it to show that his Tardus nuumanni is identical with T. 

 rvficollis^. 



But t must continue with my Formosan ornithology. 



Tardus albiceps, $ . Skins brought from Central Formosa 

 (Choloshan). Bill and legs brown. Crown deep brown. Fea- 

 thers at base of culmen, lores, and fore part of eye-streak light 

 buff-brown. Rest of eye-streak, indistinct nuchal band, and 

 under neck white, the latter somewhat spotted, chiefly on the 

 sides, with small black arrow-heads. Cheeks varied with buff 

 and black. Upper parts deep olive-brown, washed on the back 

 with buff. Wings the same ; primary coverts tipped with brown- 

 ish buff, and primaries edged paler. The upper tail-coverts, dor- 

 sals, and scapulars faintly barred. Tail deep olive-brown. Under- 

 parts as in male, but lighter. Wing 4*25 to 4*3 inches. 



Goatsuckers may be seen any evening at this season, skim- 

 ming about at dusk at the foot of Apes' Hill. I beat out a 

 couple of males from some bushes in my garden on the 19th of 

 January, and shot them both. As I have before only given the 

 female, I will now give 



Caprimulgus stictomus, 6. Length 10 inches; wing 7'5; 

 tail 4*7, of ten feathers; lateral tail-feather about three-tenths 

 shorter than the rest, which are nearly equal. Wing reaches to 

 • 8 inch from end of tail. Bill flesh-coloured, apical half blackish 



* [The reviewer of Herr Radde's work (Nat. Hist. Rev. 1865, p. 462) 

 considers that author to be wrong in this identification. — Ed.] 



