392 Mr. R. Swinhoe on Fonnosan Ornilhology. 



the Peninsula; but I propose, on some future occasion, to 

 publish in this Magazine a complete list of the species that have 

 come under my notice, either in a wild state or in collections, 

 with their scientific and local Spanish names, and the localities in 

 which I met with them. 

 Lilford, August 1866. 



XXXI. — Ornithological Notes from Formosa, By Robert 

 Swinhoe, Her Majesty's Consul at Taiwan, F.Z.S., &c. 



(Plate XI.) 

 [Continued from p. 316.J 

 I RETURNED from the mountains, having penetrated to about the 

 centre of the island. I was there arranging to climb across to 

 Black Rock Bay, on the east side, when a letter reached me, and 

 caused me to hurry back with all speed to Takow. It brought 

 me instructions to repair by first vessel to Amoy to take charge 

 of the consulate there. I was altogether ten days in the interior ; 

 but as I am now hurried I must defer my sketch of the trip for 

 a future paper. I bid a long farewell to Formosa in a few days. 

 I will, however, attempt, before I leave, to finish my descriptions 

 of novelties and the like. I commence with 



Mtjiomela montiurn, nobis (Ibis, 1864, p. 362), $ . Wing 3*5 

 inches. Bill blackish-brown. Legs brown, claws paler. Plumage 

 olivaceous, tinged in parts with bufi^; throat paler, with roots of 

 feathers whitish. A concealed white spot on side of the neck. 

 Abdomen more or less grey, its middle pure white. Axillaries 

 olive-buff^. Under margins of remiges light reddish-buff^, making 

 the under part of closed wing reddish on its inner half. Quills 

 edged exteriorly with reddish olive-brown. Rectrices olive- 

 brown ; the second to the fifth (the outermost being counted as 

 first) having white on the outer web, the third only a little close 

 to its root, the second more, and tlie third and fourth for more 

 than half their lengths ; the neighbourhood of the white strongly 

 shaded with black, as are all the rectrices near their roots. Outer 

 tail-feathers in one specimen entirely black, showing, I presume, 

 either that the particular specimen is a young male in moult, or 



