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that I have no specimen of S. Candida wherewith to make a com- 

 parison. 



I received at the same time a specimen of Salicaria cantons of 

 the ' Fauna Japonica.' At least it answers well to the description 

 of that species^ and recalls to ray mind a bird bearing that name 

 that I saw in the Leyden Museum. Length 5*5 inches; wing 

 2-8 inches; tail 2-4 inches. Fourth and fifth quills the longest 

 in wing; first quill "7 inch long; second "4 inch shorter than 

 third, which is "2 inch shorter than the longest. Tail only mo- 

 derately graduated. Bill blackish-brown, ochreous on the tomia, 

 and orange at the gape ; the base of the gonys somewhat pale. 

 Legs deep brown, blacker on the toes and claws. The bird 

 in stature is intermediate between Calamoherpe canturians and 

 Calliope, but it has much the plumage of Sylvia hortensis. Its 

 feet are heavy, and its claws thick and blunt ; but the hind toe is 

 not so disproportionately large as in C. canturians and C. minuta, 

 its tail is much less, and its primary remiges are differently gra- 

 duated. At a hasty glance one might mistake it for the imma- 

 ture Calliope kamtschatkensis ; but there is no chance of confound- 

 ing it with Calamoherpe canturians. 



Adieu ! " Cras ingens iterabimus sequor." Amoy-ward ho ! 



Takow, S.W. Formosa, 

 8 March, 1866. 



On the 8th of March I received from the interior a male of 

 my new Strix pithecops. The bird was being brought down 

 alive, but died before it reached me. This specimen, examined 

 before it was skinned, wanted the collar and pectoral band which 

 I noted as specific characters in the specimen before described. 

 I took down the following note of the bird : — Length 14*2 

 inches; wing 11 inches. Tail of eight feathers, bowed on its 

 surface or hogged, 4 inches long. Angles where the two facial 

 disks meet on the crown lined with deep blackish-brown. Bill 

 pale flesh-coloured, nearly milky-white. Bare portion of tarsi 

 and toes the colour of a labourer's rough scaly hand. Claws 

 pale, with a tinge of brown, their culmens brown. 



On the 8th of May a box of birds reached me from Formosa, 

 the captures of my hunters in the interior after my departure for 

 Amoy. One of the birds seems to be my Trihura squameiceps 



