298 Mr. R. Swinhoe on Formosan Ornithology. 



Cheeks, sides of neck, breast, and axillaries greyish brown. Flanks, 

 tibiae, and vent of the same colour as the back. Rest of under- 

 parts brownish white. In older birds there is less rufous on 

 the face, and the under-parts are greyer and darker. The ioral 

 bristles are not so long and conspicuous as in the other species. 



56. Pratincola indica, Blyth. 



Occasionally met with on the Formosan plains during winter. 



57. Ianthia cyanura (Temm. & Schl.). 

 Lusciola cyanura, Temm. & Schl., Fauna Japonica. 

 Nemura rufilata, mihi, Ibis, 1860, p. 54. 

 Ianthia rufilata, mihi. Ibis, 1861, p. 329. 



Never observed but once at Tarasuy in March, when I pro- 

 cured a nearly adult male. 



58. Calliope kamtschatkensis, Gmel. 



I have one of this in full plumage, shot at Tamsuy in April. 

 It is at this season that they touch at Amoy on their northward 

 migration ; and I suspect this is merely a passing straggler. 



59. RuTiciLLA fuliginosa (Vigors). 

 Phoenicura fuliginosa. Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 35. 

 R.plumbea, Gould, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 185. 



R. lineoventris, Hodgs. 



This species, originally described from the Himalayas, is found 

 as a winter bird on the hills of Foochow, near Amoy (China). 

 From the Tamsuy hills, Formosa, I also procured several skins, 

 in March, identically the same. 6 Bill black ; legs brown. 

 General plumage deep bluish grey. Wings deep hair-brown, 

 margined with the same. Rump, vent, central portions of tibiae, 

 and tail a fine rufous, the feathers of the latter in one specimen 

 washed with black near their tips ; in another and apparently 

 older specimen there is no black on the tail, and the tibiae are 

 brownish, without any rufous. 



The immature plumage is of a deep olive-grey on the upper 

 parts, the face being somewhat rufous. The wings are sepia, 

 margined with light yellowish brown; and several of the 

 wing-coverts carry a white spot at their tips. The rump and 

 vent are pure white. Tail deep sepia, all the feathers at their 



