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Mr. R. Swinhoe on Formosan Ornithology . 
The term tancola is the Foochow name for the bird that 
occurs there. 
103. Picus insularis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 283. 
In this we have a small but somewhat close ally of P. leuco- 
notus, a bird found throughout Siberia as far as Northern Japan. 
The species from the Formosan forests has, like it, a red crown in 
the male, and the lower part of the back white; but it is much 
smaller in size, and differs in particular colouring.—Length 9 in.; 
wing 5j^; tail 4. 
Bill leaden grey, washed with brown, the gonys and apical 
quarter of lower mandible being light pinkish brown. Legs and 
claws deep leaden grey, the latter with whitish bases. Crown- 
cap in the male carmine, the bases of the feathers being black, 
in the female entirely black; frontal band white. A broad 
black line runs from base of bill, passes round nape to occiput, 
whilst a continuation of it runs broadening down the sides of 
breast, breaking up into long spots which run thickly down the 
flanks. Ground-plumage of under parts dingy ochreous white, 
varying in intensity. Centre of belly and vent washed with 
carmine. Back, upper tail-coverts, and wings black, the latter 
rather sparsely spotted on the quills with white. A broad white 
band crosses the rump and lower back; and rather higher up a 
few feathers are spotted at their ends with the same. Four 
central rectrices black; the next on each side with two ochreous 
spots on the outer webs near the tip; the two outer ones with four 
ochreous white bands, more or less developed, across the black 
feathers. 
In the young bird the black is dull and brownish, the light 
parts are whiter, and the crimson on the vent and belly is very 
pale. The white on the lateral tail-feathers is also somewhat 
differently distributed. 
J 104. Ficus kaleensis, n. sp. 
The only species of this spark-headed group that I found in 
China occurred near Peking. I have described it in this Journal 
( antea , p. 96) as P. scintilliceps. This is another of the same type 
occurring throughout Formosa. I have a male specimen before 
me from the S.W. plains near Taiwanfoo, and several from the 
