204 ALLEN'S NATURALISTS LIBRARY. 



with some white and buff markings. Quills mostly blackish- 

 brown ; eyebrow-stripes grey ; sides of the head and throat 

 rufous-chestnut ; chest mostly grey ; rest of under-parts buff, 

 with dark transverse spots on the sides and flanks ; tail 

 mostly chestnut. 



Male: Total length, ir8 inches; wing, 5-4; tail, 3-8; tar- 

 sus, 17. 



Female: Somewhat smaller ; wing, 5*2 inches. 



Range. — South China, extending from Fokien to Sze-chuen 

 and South Shen-si. 



III. THE FORMOSAN BAMBOO-PHEASANT. BAMBUSICOLA 



SONORIVOX. 



Bamhusicola sonorivox^ Gould, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 285 ; id. B. 

 Asia, vi. pi. dz (1864); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 xxii. p. 259 (1893). 



Adult Male and Female. — General plumage like that of B. tho- 

 racica, but richer and darker, and distinguished by having only 

 the chin and throat chestnut, the sides of the face being dark 

 grey, like the eyebrow-stripes and sides of the neck. 



Male: Total length, 9-6 inches; wing, 5*1 ; tail, 3-5 ; tar- 

 sus, 1-5. 



Female : Rather smaller. 



Range. — Island of Formosa. 



Habits.— Swinhoe gives the following account of the For- 

 mosan Bamboo-Pheasant :— " This and the Foochow Bamboo- 

 fowl {B. thoracica) are of very similar habits and notes. This 

 species is found throughout all the hills of Formosa, generally 

 scattered about the bush, never in coveys. It is very pugi- 

 listic, the males and females both singing the same loud cry, 

 beginning with killy-killy, and ending rapidly with ke-put-kzvai, 

 wliich is so powerfully uttered that it may be heard at a great 

 distance. They are not easily flushed, lying so close to the 

 ground that you may walk over the spot whence the noise ap- 

 pears to come, and rarely put up the bird. Each pair selects 



