296 Mr. It. Swinhoe on Formosan Ornithology . 
tending some way into the former. Throat, as far as breast, 
black, uniting with the black at bottom of hind-neck, and leaving 
the forehead, space under the eye, and cheeks white. Upper 
parts deep leaden grey, with a few rufous feathers adjoining the 
nuchal white spot. Tail the same colour as the back, washed 
with brown, with blackish shafts, and with narrow white tips to 
some of the feathers. Quills blackish brown, the primaries and 
secondaries margined exteriorly, and the tertiaries washed, with 
the colour of the back. Axillaries, carpal edge, and under-edges 
of quills white. Rest of the under-parts deep cinnamon-rufous. 
This species may at once be distinguished from its near ally 
from Japan not only by its much smaller size, but also by the 
almost entire absence of the rufous on the upper back. 
54. Alcippe morrisonia, n. sp. 
This species, which appears to be half-brother to the Nepalese 
bird, A . nipalensis, Hodgs., is a very abundant resident in the 
interior of Formosa, frequenting wooded localities on the moun¬ 
tains, seldom under an altitude of 2000 feet. It is by no means 
a skulking bird, exposing itself on the large branches of trees, 
and frequently alighting and hopping along the ground. It 
feeds chiefly on insects, and, it is said, also on seeds, but this I 
am inclined to doubt. 
Length 5 in.; wing 2-^ in.; tail 2^ in., of twelve feathers, 
somewhat graduated, and angularly tipped. Fourth quill longest 
in the wing. Tarse'76. Bill greyish black. Legs sienna-ochre; 
claws the same, tipped with blackish. Irides greyish brown. A 
ring of white feathers girdles the eye. Head, neck, and higher 
back brownish ash-colour, rather whitish on the throat and be¬ 
tween the bill and eye; a broad, somewhat obscure black line runs 
down on either side of the hind-neck. Rest of upper parts olive- 
brown, redder on the rump. Tail-feathers obscurely barred, 
with their shafts dark brown. Inner webs of primary and 
secondary quills deep hair-brown. Breast, belly, carpal edge, 
and axillaries ochreous white. Flanks, tibiae, and vent brownish 
buff-colour. Under-edge of quills and under-shafts of tail- 
feathers buff-white. Bristles on the loral space black, strong, 
and conspicuous. Sexes similar. 
In May I procured a newly-fledged young one. Its head is 
