A Hand-List of Formosan Birds. 



By 



Seinosuke Ucliida 



Ornithologist to the Bureau of Agriculture, Tokyo. 



The following list was originally compiled for my own use in the 

 study of Formosan avifauna. On recommendation of Professor Ijima,. 

 it is now published with the aim of giving a handy guide to the 

 collectors and students of the birds of that interesting island, and 

 eventually of aiding in the furtherance of our knowledge about them. 

 It scarcely needs to be mentioned that the list is largely based on 

 the previous records, but I should state that not a small part 

 of my labour consisted in the study of the collections of the Science 

 College, Tokyo Imperial University, and of the Taihoku Museum, 

 Formosa. It may here be mentioned that the Science College collec- 

 tion of Formosan birds, which originally consisted of the skins obtained 

 by Mr. Tada in 1896- 1 897, has of recent years undergone much 

 augmentation from donations by Mr. A. Owston of Yokohama and 

 by Mr. Y. Kikuchi of the Taihoku Museum. 



In the last published important work on Formosan birds — that 

 of Ogilvie Grant and La Touche (1907) — there were given 260 species 

 as known from the island. Overlooked in that work but previously re- 

 ported from the island were 5 species (viz., Buhveria btttweri men- 

 tioned by Ogawa 1906 ; Cuculus canorus, Tringa subarquata, Nycti- 

 corax prasinosceles and Lams vegœ contained in Tada 1898) ; while 

 subsequently new additions were made: by Grant (1908) 3 species 

 (viz., Pyrrhula owstoni, Hemichelidon ferruginea and Syrnium nivicola) 

 and by Martert (1905) I species (viz., Alauda coelivox). Now 



