204 Lloyd's natural history. 



with some white and buff markings. Quills mostly blackish- 

 brown ; eyebrow-stripes grey ; sides of the head and throat 

 rufous-chestnut ; chest mostly grey ; rest of under-parts buff, 

 with dark transverse spots on the sides and flanks ; tail 

 mostly chestnut. 



Male: Total length, ir8 inches; wing, 5-4; tail, 3*8; tar- 

 sus, 17. 



Female: Somewhat smaller ; wing, 5*2 inches. 



Range. — South China, extending from Fokien to Sze-chuen 

 and South Shen-si. 



III. THE FORMOSAN BAMBOO-PHEASANT. BAMBUSICOLA 

 SONORIVOX. 



Bambusicola sonorivox, Gould, P.'Z. S. 1862, p. 285; id. 13. 

 Asia, vi. pi. 6$ (1864); Ogiivie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 xxii. p. 259 (1893). 



Adult Male and Female. — General plumage like that of B. tho- 

 racica, but richer and darker, and distinguished by having only 

 the chin and throat chestnut, the sides of the face being dark 

 grey, like the eyebrow-stripes and sides of the neck. 



Male: Total length, 96 inches; wing, 5*1; tail, 3^5; tar- 

 sus, 1-5. 



Female : Rather smaller. 



Range. — Island of Formosa. 



Habits. — Swinhoe gives the following account of the For- 

 mosan Bamboo-Pheasant : — " This and the Foochow Bamboo- 

 fowl (B. thoracica) are of very similar habits and notes. This 

 species is found throughout all the hills of Formosa, generally 

 scattered about the bush, never in coveys. It is very pugi- 

 listic, the males and females both singing the same loud cry, 

 beginning with killy-killy, and ending rapidly with ke-put-kivai, 

 which is so powerfully uttered that it may be heard at a great 

 distance. They are not easily flushed, lying so close to the 

 ground that you may walk over the spot whence the noise ap- 

 pears to come, and rarely put up the bird. Each pair selects 



