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XXX. — Additional Notes on the Birds of Formosa. 

 By W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. 



(Plates XII. & XIII.) 



Since the publication in this Journal * of the paper on the 

 birds of Formosa^ I have received a small collection from the 

 central mountains of that island formed by Dr. Arnold 

 Moltrecht, Surgeon-in-Chief of the Emigrant Hospital, 

 Vladivostok. During his travels in the island, which 

 lasted for three months and a half, Dr. Moltrecht visited 

 and made collections in the following places : — Koshun 

 District, near South Cape (February) ; Rautai-San, 7000 ft., 

 Nanto District (March) ; and Arizan, 7000 ft., Kagi District 

 (April), the two last-named mountains being near Mount 

 Morrison, in Central Formosa. 



Dr. Moltrecht was fortunate enough to obtain an adult 

 male example of the wonderful new Pheasant Calophasis 

 mikado, together with a young male. An adult female was 

 shot but not secured, being lost in the high grass. He 

 remarks that females of this species are to be met with at a 

 lower elevation than males, and that the adult male which 

 he secured was killed on Arizan at an elevation of 8300 ft. 

 This specimen was apparently sent to the St. Petersburg 

 Museum, as only the immature male was forwarded to the 

 British Museum. 



As will be seen by the following list, Dr. Moltrecht's 

 collection includes examples of several of the species first 

 discovered by Mr. Walter Goodfellow on Mount Morrison 

 in 1906. It also contains examples of a Wood-Owl, which 

 appears to be Syrnium nivicola Hodgs., but is slightly 

 smaller, and a Flycatcher, Hemichelidon ferruginea Hodgs. ; 

 neither of these, though found in the Himalaya and N.W. 

 China, was hitherto known to occur in Formosa. 



The former paper in ^ The Ibis ' is referred to throughout 

 as " Grant & La Touche," and the numbers in front of 

 each species are the same as those previously used. One 



* "On tlie Birds of the Island of Formosa/' by W. R. Ogilvie-Grant 

 and J. D. D. La Touclie, ' Ibis,' 1907, pp. 151-198 & 254-279. 



