the Birds of the Island of Formosa. 155 
When I could get about again, I found Racu Racu was not 
abad place for birds, but it was disappointing to find that a 
great number of the lowland species were met with there 
in spite of the cold, for the snow had followed us down 
and was lying on the mountains a little above the village. 
“You will see that the Barbet (Cyanops nuchalis Swinh.) 
was fairly numerous at Racu Racu, and even at 8000 ft. 
where there was snow. I had hoped that the severe weather 
might drive all the birds down to us from the highlands, and 
probably to some extent it did so, for many of the birds I 
found at Racu Racu might not be obtainable there in the 
summer, but it brought none of those species down that 
I had obtained at our highest camp, between 9000 and 
10,000 ft. After apparently exhausting the avifauna of 
Racu Racu, I was determined, in spite of bad weather, to 
go up higher once more, and we camped out in a ravine 
near the S.W. front of Mt. Morrison between 8000 and 
9000 ft. We hada fine day for our ascent, but it rained 
all night, and during the eight days that I remained there I 
was only able to go out collecting once, for about three hours. 
A thick, wet fog prevailed the whole of the time, and this 
obscured everything, so that for a day at a time it was 
impossible to see a yard in front of one. Wearied out with 
nothing to do in this gloom and with everything wet through, 
we were glad to get away and went from there to the 
Ho Ho Mountain, two days’ journey further west. We 
had one week of beautiful weather, succeeded by ten days 
of rain and fog; thus ten more days were wasted. During 
the rest of my stay we had alternate days of wet and fine. 
The same kind of weather prevailed on Kiew-kong-chin, 
but with rather a larger proportion of wet days, which were 
always accompanied by thick fog. On looking at my diary 
I see that on more than half of the days of the three months 
I spent in the mountains it was impossible to do any 
collecting on account of the weather. 
“T fully expected to find a Crossbill and a Bullfinch in the 
higher pine-forests, but I saw nothing resembling either of 
them. ‘The savages know every bird up there and have 
