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Mr. R. Swinhoe on Formosan Ornithology. 
graduated, giving a roundness to the tail; bill blackish grey, 
darkest on cnlmen and towards point; base of lower mandible 
pale bluish grey; extreme base, rictus, and cere light olive-green, 
somewhat greyish; inside of mouth light bluish grey; skin 
round the eye black; legs feathered down to the toes, which 
are light chrome-yellow; the claws very large, powerful, and 
deep greyish black, lighter towards their roots. 
Prof. Schlegel considers this species, together with Sp. limna- 
etus } Horsf., and one or two others, to be all referable to the 
one species, Sp. cirrhatus, Gm., the crest being probably only 
a mark of the full summer plumage, and falling out in the 
winter. Our bird, apparently an adult female, and shot in the 
early spring, shows no sign of a crest. It has the head and 
entire under parts rufous white, the ventral colour, under wing- 
coverts, and tibial feathers being more strongly rufescent, the 
latter being indistinctly barred with a deeper shade. The tail 
is long, nearly even, brown, somewhat indistinctly crossed with 
12 broad bars, and tipped with whitish; and the tail beneath 
appears brownish white, barred with deep brown. The feathers 
of the upper parts are deep brown, margined with rufous white. 
The feathers of the head and nape are lanceolate. The upper 
tail-coverts are cream-coloured, barred with light brown. The 
greater wing-coverts are brown, margined and largely spotted 
with reddish white. The quills are blackish brown, the broad 
part of their exterior webs being brown, and their inner webs 
barred with whitish, which obtains on the greater part of the 
feathers as you proceed to the tertiaries. The under wing pre¬ 
sents a large patch of a reddish white nearly throughout its 
entire extent. 
7. Micronisus gularis, Schleg. Faun. Jap. 
A young male of this species, brought to me from the interior 
on the 20th March, 1862, at Tamsuy, is the only proof I have 
of the existence of this bird in Formosa. It has been identified 
by Mr. Gurney. The species most usual about Amoy and Foo¬ 
chow is the M. soloensisy Horsf., which may at once be distin¬ 
guished, at all ages, from this species by its pure, unspotted, 
cream-coloured under wing-coverts. In the autumn M. soloensis 
