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broadly tipped with a rufous hue of the same. The rest of the 
wing black. Undershafts of quills and rectrices pale ochreous 
brown. 
100. Dendrocitta sinensis, var. Formosa. 
In China I never had the good fortune to meet with this 
interesting form, though doubtless it must occur in some of the 
interior hills. In the inner ranges of the Formosan mountains 
it was common enough, rarely if ever descending to the cleared 
hills or the lowlands. The Formosan bird offers a few distinc¬ 
tions, but they are too trifling to be regarded as specific. It has 
a less bulky bill, the black frontal band is much narrower, and 
the throat is never so black; but in general style of colouring it 
is so similar to the Indian bird, that it is impossible to separate 
them. 
Bill and legs greyish black; claws brown. Crown, hindneck, 
rump, and upper tail-coverts bluish grey. Lores and frontal 
band brownish black. Neck, sides of neck, and breast light 
greyish chocolate-brown, deeper on the cheeks and throat, and 
paling on the flanks and belly to almost white. Axillaries and 
tibise deep blackish brown. Vent a fine rufous buff. Back and 
scapularies clear yellow chocolate-brown. Wings a fine glossy 
black, duller on the primaries, across which near their bases a bar 
of white runs, commencing on the inner web of the 2nd quill, and 
widening as it runs. Tail composed of twelve greatly graduated 
feathers, broad, and cut nearly square at their ends, with the tips of 
the shafts slightly projecting; the two central ones black on about 
the apical half, the remainder bluish grey, but the proportions 
of these two colours vary in different individuals : the rest of the 
rectrices black, with a little grey at their bases.—Length 13 in.; 
wing 5i ; tail 7\. 
The females appear to be rather duller-coloured than the 
males, but they are otherwise similar. 
An interesting account of this bird and its nesting-habits is 
given in the Catalogue of Birds in E. I. C. Museum, vol. ii. 
p. 569, to which I would refer my readers. 
101. Megal^ema nuchalis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 283. 
The only species of this genus known from South China is 
