Notes on Formosan Birds, with Description 

 of a New Bullfinch. 



By 



Nagamichi Kuroda, Rîgalwshi. 



The following notes on Formosan birds are based in part on the col- 

 lection I have made on the occasion of my visit to the island during April 

 and May of last year, and in part on specimens preserved in some other 

 collections, but chiefly in the museums of Taihoku and Tainan. Mr. Uchida, 

 in his "Hand-list of Formosan Birds" (Annot. Zool. Jap., vol. VIII, pt. r, 

 1 91 2) has given 290 species and subspecies ; further, the same auther has 

 added in his "Nihon Chörui Zusetsu" (The Birds of Japan, 1915 ) 1 I more 

 forms to the list. To the number I am now able to add still 30 more, 

 bringing up the total number of forms in the Formosan avifauna to 331. 

 ( )ne of the new additions is a species of Pyrrlmla, which I will call P. 

 uchidai, the type of which is contained in the collect'on of the Science 

 College, Tokyo Imperial University. 



In the preparation of this paper, Mr. Uchida has favoured me with 

 much valuable advice. Mr. M. Oshima of the Taihoku Museum and Mr. 

 T. Kazano of the Tainan Museum have given me exceptional facilities in 

 the examination of the specimens under their care. Messrs. M. Hayakawa 

 and Y. Kikuchi of Taihoku have both rendered me very useful help to my 

 collecting work. To all the above gentlemen my best thanks are due. 



Family PODICIPEDIDiE. 



I. Fodicipes flitriafilis pli Hippen sis (Bonnaterre). 



Kaitsuburi. 



Ogawa, Annot. Zool. Japon., 1908, p. 337; P. phibppensis (Bonn.), 

 Grant, Cat. B. Br. Mus., XXVI, p. 511; Uchida, Annot. Zool. Japon., 191 2, 

 p. 141; Podicrps philtfipemis (Bonn.); Tada, Taiwan Chörui Ippan, 1899, p. 



