296 Mr. R. Swinhoe on Formosan Ornithology. 



tending some way into the former. Throat, as far as breast, 

 black, uniting with the black at bottom of hind-neck, and leaving 

 the forehead, space under the eye, and cheeks white. Upper 

 parts deep leaden grey, with a few rufous feathers adjoining the 

 nuchal white spot. Tail the same colour as the back, washed 

 with brown, with blackish shafts, and with narrow white tips to 

 some of the feathers. Quills blackish brown, the primaries and 

 secondaries margined exteriorly, and the tertiaries washed, with 

 the colour of the back. Axillaries, carpal edge, and under-edges 

 of quills white. Rest of the under-parts deep cinnamon-rufous. 

 This species may at once be distinguished from its near ally 

 from Japan not only by its much smaller size, but also by the 

 almost entire absence of the rufous on the upper back. 



54. Alcippe morrisonia, n. sp. 



This species, which appears to be half-brother to the Nepalese 

 bird, A. nipalensis, Hodgs., is a very abundant resident in the 

 interior of Formosa, frequenting wooded localities on the moun- 

 tains, seldom under an altitude of 2000 feet. It is by no means 

 a skulking bird, exposing itself on the large branches of trees, 

 and frequently alighting and hopping along the ground. It 

 feeds chiefly on insects, and, it is said, also on seeds, but this I 

 am inclined to doubt. 



Length 5 in.; wing 2^ in.; tail 2^ in,, of twelve feathers, 

 somewhat graduated, and angularly tipped. Fourth quill longest 

 in the wing. Tarse '76. Bill greyish black. Legs sienna-ochre; 

 claws the sam.e, tipped with blackish. Irides greyish brown. A 

 ring of white feathers girdles the eye. Head, neck, and higher 

 back brownish ash-colour, rather whitish on the throat and be- 

 tween the bill and eye ; a broad, somewhat obscure black line runs 

 down on either side of the hind-neck. Rest of upper parts olive- 

 brown, redder on the rump. Tail-feathers obscurely barred, 

 with their shafts dark brown. Inner webs of primary and 

 secondary quills deep hair-brown. Breast, belly, carpal edge, 

 and axillaries ochreous white. Flanks, tibise, and vent brownish 

 buff-colour. Under-edge of quills and under-shafts o^ tail- 

 feathers buff- white. Bristles on the loral space black, strong, 

 and conspicuous. Sexes similar. 



In May I procured a newly-fledged young one. Its head is 



