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of red on the base of the feathers of the forehead : “iris 
white” (Meek). 
Hab, Fergusson Island and S.E. New Guinea. 
The above-mentioned characters, already pointed out by 
me as distinguishing the S.E. New Guinea birds, have been 
deemed sufficient by Mr. Hartert to separate them as 
belonging to a subspecies. 
[To be continued. ] 
VI.—On the Birds of the Island of Formosa. 
By W.R. Ocitvis-Granrt and J. D. D. La Toucue. 
(Plates III. & IV.) 
Tue present paper, which, so far as we are aware, contains a 
complete list of all the species of Birds known to occur on 
the Island of Formosa, is based on a remarkable collection 
made by the well-known traveller and naturalist, Mr. Walter 
Goodfellow, on Mount Morrison and some of the neigh- 
bouring peaks of Central Formosa, during the months of 
January, February, and March 1906. 
On finding that Mr. J. D. D. La Touche, who has visited 
and made collections of birds in both the north and south 
of Formosa, was also engaged in preparing a list of the birds 
known to occur on that island, I suggested that we should 
combine cur work, and to this he kindly assented. 
A long letter received from Mr. Goodfellow with the 
collection contains such an excellent account of his adven- 
turous journey that I feel that I cannot do better than repeat 
the story in his own words. He writes :—‘‘ [ am not very 
satisfied with the Formosan collection. Formosa is the most 
difficult country to collect in that I have yet visited and the 
most uninteresting. No one can imagine the difficulties 
one has to put up with, and I should never have been able 
to get into the interior at all, had it not been for your 
letters of introduction. The Japanese allow no one into the 
savage territory, but the truth is that no one could go there 
