390 Mr. R. Swinlioe on Formosan Ornithology. 



The term tancola is the Foochovv name for the bird that 

 occurs there. 



103. Picus iNsuLARis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 283. 



In this we have a small but somewhat close ally of P. leuco- 

 notus, a bird found throughout Siberia as far as Northern Japan. 

 The species from the Formosan forests has, like it, a red crown in 

 the male, and the lower part of the back white ; but it is much 

 smaller in size, and differs in particular colouring. — Length 9 in.; 

 wing 5^^ ; tail 4, 



Bill leaden grey, washed with brown, the gonys and apical 

 quarter of lower mandible being light pinkish brown. Legs and 

 claws deep leaden grey, the latter with whitish bases. Crown- 

 cap in the male carmine, the bases of the feathers being black, 

 in the female entirely black ; frontal band white. A broad 

 black line runs from base of bill, passes round nape to occiput, 

 whilst a continuation of it runs broadening down the sides of 

 breast, breaking up into long spots which run thickly down the 

 flanks. Ground-plumage of under parts dingy ochreous white, 

 varying in intensity. Centre of belly and vent washed with 

 carmine. Back, upper tail-coverts, and wings black, the latter 

 rather sparsely spotted on the quills with white. A broad white 

 band crosses the rump and lower back ; and rather higher up a 

 few feathers are spotted at their ends with the same. Four 

 central rectrices black ; the next on each side with two ochreous 

 spots on the outer webs near the tip ; the two outer ones with four 

 ochreous white bands, more or less developed, across the black 

 feathers. 



In the young bird the black is dull and brownish, the light 

 parts are whiter, and the crimson on the vent and belly is very 

 pale. The white on the lateral tail-feathers is also somewhat 

 differently distributed. 



104. Picus kaleensis, n. sp. 



The only species of this spark-headed group that I found in 

 China occurred near Peking. I have described it in this Journal 

 {antea, ]). 96) as P. scintilliceps. This is another of the same type 

 occurring throughout Formosa. I have a male specimen before 

 me from the S.W, plains near Taiwanfoo, and several from tlie 



