212 Mr. R. Swinhoe on Formosan Ornithology. 



graduated, giving a roundness to the tail ; bill blackish gre}', 

 darkest on culmen and towards point ; base of lower mandible 

 pale bluish grey ; extreme base, rictus, and cere light olive-green, 

 somewhat greyish ; inside of mouth light bluish grey ; skin 

 round the eye black; legs feathered down to the toes, which 

 are light chrome-yellow ; the claws very large, powerful, and 

 deep greyish black, lighter towards their roots. 



Prof. Schlegel considers this species, together with Sp. limna- 

 etus, Horsf., and one or two others, to be all referable to the 

 one species, Sp. cirrhatus, Gm., the crest being probably only 

 a mark of the full summer plumage, and falling out in the 

 winter. Our bird, apparently an adult female, and shot in the 

 early spring, shows no sign of a crest. It has the head and 

 entire under parts rufous white, the ventral colour, under wing- 

 coverts, and tibial feathers being more strongly rufescent, the 

 latter being indistinctly barred with a deeper shade. The tail 

 is long, nearly even, brown, somewhat indistinctly crossed with 

 12 broad bars, and tipped with whitish ; and the tail beneath 

 appears brownish white, barred with deep brown. The feathers 

 of the upper parts are deep brown, margined with rufous white. 

 The feathers of the head and nape are lanceolate. The upper 

 tail-coverts are cream-coloured, barred with light brown. The 

 greater wing-coverts are brown, margined and largely spotted 

 with reddish white. The quills are blackish brown, the broad 

 part of their exterior webs being brown, and their inner webs 

 barred with whitish, which obtains on the greater part of the 

 feathers as you proceed to the tertiaries. The under wing pre- 

 sents a large patch of a reddish white nearly throughout its 

 entire extent. 



7. MicRONisus GULARis, Schleg. Faun. Jap. 



A young male of this species, brought to me from the interior 

 on the 20th March, 1862, at Tamsuy, is the only proof I have 

 of the existence of this bird in Formosa. It has been identified 

 by Mr. Gurney. The species most usual about Amoy and Foo- 

 chow is the M. solo'ensis, Horsf., which may at once be distin- 

 guished, at all ages, from this species by its pure, unspotted, 

 cream-coloured under wing-coverts. In the autumn M. solo'ensis 



