the Birds of the Island of Formosa. 185 
87. *Matvacras AURICULARIS (Swinh.). 
Kittacincla auricularis Swinh. Ibis, 1864, p. 361. 
Sibia auricularis Sclater, op. cit. 1866, p. 109, pl. iv. : 
Swinh. op. cit. 1866, pp. 400, 401, 410 ; La Touche, op. cit. 
1895, pp. 314, 321, 330. 
Malacias auricularis Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vu. p. 405 
(1883). 
a-m. 6 ?. Racu Racu Mts., 6000-7000 ft., Jan., Feb. 
1906. 
n—qg. 6 2. Ho Ho Mt., 5000 ft., Feb., March 1906. 
Iris brown ; bill black ; feet yellowish flesh-coloured. 
It is a question whether this species of “ Sibia” ought 
not to be placed in a separate genus, the extremely elongated 
ear-coverts rendering it very distinct from the typical species 
of Malacias and Lioptila. It is pecuhar to Formosa, where 
it frequents the wooded hills. 
88. *AcTINODURA MORRISONIANA Grant. 
Actinodura morrisoniana Grant, Bull. B. O. C. xvi. p. 119 
(1906). 
a,b. 6 ?. Mt. Morrison, 8000 ft., Jan. 1906. (Types 
of the species.) 
Adult male and female. Top and sides of the head deep 
chestnut-brown; chin and throat paler chestnut, the feathers 
with rufous-buff sides, giving these parts a somewhat streaked 
appearance ; upper mantle, sides of the neck and breast 
brownish grey, streaked with white; rest of the back reddish 
olive with fine indistinct cross-bars; belly and under tail- 
coverts reddish brown, streaked with rusty-buff; wings 
black, barred with rufous, the primaries margined with 
white along the terminal portion of the outer web ; bastard- 
wing and greater wing-coverts black, edged with grey ; the 
rest of the wing-coverts and scapulars reddish olive ; tail- 
feathers black barred with rufous at the base, grey towards 
the tip, and tipped with white. 
3d. Total length ca. 7:0 inches; wing 3°33; tail 33; 
tarsus 11. 
¢. Total length ca. 7°0 inches; wing 3:1; tail 3-1; 
tarsus 11. 
