282 MR. GOULD ON NEW BIRDS FROM FoRMOSA. [Nov. 25, 
HyPsiIpETEs NIGERRIMA, Gould. 
Entire plumage black, with the exception of the edges of the pri- 
maries and tail-feathers, which are pure grey, a tint which is also 
observable, but in a minor degree, on the margins of the greater and 
lesser wing-coverts, and on the feathers of the flanks and the back, 
on the latter, however, it is rather of a greenish cast than pure grey ; 
bill blood-red ; legs red. 
Total length, 83 inches; bill, 13; wing, 5; tail, 4; tarsi, 3. 
Remark.—This species is somewhat allied to, but is a smaller bird 
than, the well-known Hypsipetes psarotdes of India. 
PERICROCOTUS GRISEOGULARIS, Gould. 
Male: forehead, crown of the head, back of the neck, back, 
shoulders, and two central tail-feathers sooty black; wings black, 
with an oblique bar of scarlet across the primaries and secondaries, 
near their bases; throat and ear-coverts light grey ; chest, abdomen, 
flanks, under tail-coverts, and rump rich scarlet ; lateral tail-feathers 
black at their bases, and scarlet for the remainder of their length ; 
thighs blackish brown; bill and legs black. 
Total length, 63 inches; bill, 3; wing, 3}; tail, 33; tarsi, 4. 
Female: throat light grey, as in the male; crown, ear-coverts, 
back, and shoulders deep leaden grey ; rump sulphur-yellow ; chest, 
abdomen, under tail-coverts, the oblique band across the wing, and 
the tips of the outer tail-feathers rich Indian yellow ; bill and legs 
black. 
Remark.—This species is somewhat allied to Pericrocotus sau- 
laris, but differs from that bird in its clearly defined throat-mark 
and other characters. 
GARRULUS TAIVANUS, Gould. 
Feathers covering the nostrils, a narrow bar on the forehead, and 
a longitudinal mark down the cheeks black; crown of the head, 
nape, back, and all the under surface vinous brown, tinged with grey 
on the centre of the back; rump and under tail-coverts white ; 
primaries black, fringed on their outer margins with greyish white ; 
the secondaries have the usual speculum of blue disposed in broad 
bars on their outer webs, and a patch of chestnut on the inner 
margin of the two shortest feathers, as in most of the true Jays; 
shoulders and spurious wing alternately barred with fine lines ot blue 
and black ; tail black; bill black ; tarsi and toes flesh-colour. 
Total length, 103 inches; bill, 14; wing, 64; tail, 55; tarsi, 13. 
Remark.—This very distinct species, the smallest of the genus I 
have yet seen, has the same general colouring as the Garrulus bispe- 
cularis of the Himalayas and the G. sinensis of China, but differs 
from both in its smaller size and in the black colouring of the feathers 
covering the nostrils. 
Urocissa CH&RULEA, Gould. 
Crown of the head, nape, cheeks, throat, and chest jet-black ; body, 
