Mr. R. Swinhoe on Formosan Ornithology. 279 
pale black. The female is similar to the male, but rather 
smaller. 
M. horsfieldii is at once distinguishable from the Formosan 
bird by its very bright blue frontal band, by its brighter blue 
shoulder-mark, by its bead and upper back being quite black, 
by its having no white on the basal part of any of the feathers, 
by its wing being inch shorter and rounder, and by its tarse 
being about ^ shorter. The basal whiteness of the ventral and 
flank feathers occurs in the small Javan species, M. cyaneus , as 
also in the three typical Myiophoni. 
The Formosan Cavern-bird haunts the dark wooded ravines 
in the interior mountains, seldom descending below the level of 
2000 feet. Like the Chinese species, its favourite position is 
on a large boulder of rock on the side of some torrent, whereon 
it stands, expanding and shutting its tail like a fan, and occa¬ 
sionally throwing it slightly up. It is easily startled, running, 
rather than hopping, over the surface of the rock, and flying off 
with a loud screaming note. It possesses a short, somewhat 
pleasant song. In its manners and habits it seems to connect 
the Thrushes and Petrocinclce with the Pittce, which also love 
the neighbourhood of mountain streams. The shape of its ear 
is most peculiar, and almost exactly similar to that of the Heni - 
curi , which are also cascade-loving birds. The birds dissected 
contained usually remains of Coleoptera and their larvse. 
41. Garrulax taivanus. 
Garrulax taiwanus, Swinhoe, Journal of As. Soc. of Shang¬ 
hai, No. 2. p. 228. 
The Hwa-mei (Flowered-Eyebrow) or Song-Thrush of the 
Chinese is so universally met with as a cage-bird in China, that 
every European possessed of ordinary observation that has 
visited the Celestial realm must be acquainted with it; yet sad 
confusion exists in its nomenclature. There is a species from 
Tenasserim with a white cheek, which has frequently been mis¬ 
taken for our bird. An Indian Malacocercus has also been 
confounded with the Chinaman,—for a genuine Chinaman I 
take him to be, confined in distribution to the hilly country of 
Southern China. We have not to run far for a name for the 
