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obtained in Hamburg in the flesh. It is a very bad representation of the species, being much too 
russet in colour (not olive enough), and with the sub-terminal pale spots on the feathers of the upper 
parts scarcely more emphasized than they are in the Australian representatives of the species. 
It is not to be wondered at that so handsome a bird should have been frequently figured. 
Keulemans has been very successful with our Plate. Тһе left-hand figure is life-sized, and is drawn 
from a male in the Swinhoe collection, shot at Amoy on the 7th of March, 1859; whilst the smaller 
and more distant figure to the right is a greyer and apparently more abraded example, also a male, 
shot on the 20th of March, 1862, on the Camphor Hills in the Island of Formosa. It is the type of 
Oreocincla апей of Swinhoe, a species which I now consider to be inseparable from Geocichla 
varia. 
