Ornithology from Formosa. 135 
August 23rd.—Another typhoon. Many birds were flying* 
about distressed by the gale. A smallish Tern ( Sterna hirundo ?) 
and a Gull-like bird, which I took to be a Stercorarius, driven 
in. All the country saturated with rain. Hermit-crabs ( Pagurus ) 
in shells of Buccinum } sp., climbing* up bushes and rocks some 
way up the hills, and hanging three or four feet from the 
ground, apparently to avoid the damp. Saw the first Willow- 
Wren, Phylloscopus sylvicultrix , Swinh., the first Lanius lucio- 
nensis, Strickl., and the first Reguloides superciliosus (Gmel.). 
September 2nd.—While wandering about the plain in the 
early morning, I watched several of Phylloscopus sylvicultrix 
and Lanius lucionensis. I also observed a Thrush-like bird 
sitting* quietly on the branch of a tree, which at first sight I 
took for an Artamus. I shot it, and to my delight found it to 
be the young of Turdus alhiceps, Swinh. (Ibis, 1864, p. 363), 
the old birds of which new species I had before procured from 
the Tamsuy mountains*. It appeared to be quite alone. Here 
is a description of it:— 
Turdus albiceps , nobis (typ. spec, of adult procured at Tamsuy 
March 15,1864) : bird of the year. Length 8 inches, wing 4*36, 
tail 3. Iris brown. Bill yellowish, washed with olive-brown; 
at rictus and inside of mouth orange-yellow. Head and neck 
olive-brown, mottled with ochre. A broad white streak runs 
over each eye, nearly meeting at the occiput. Upper parts 
blackish-olive, the coverts streaked with reversed arrow-heads of 
ochre; the dorsals and upper tail-coverts but lightly streaked. 
Primaries and winglet black, with paler edges. Secondaries also 
black, washed on their outer webs with blackish-olive. Tail 
of twelve mucronate rectrices, black, washed with olive. Under 
parts orange-buff, speckled and mottled with olive, washed on 
the sides with olive and grey. Throat and vent dull white. 
Sides of breast deep olive, with broad ochreous centres, often 
shaped like arrow-heads. Under wings and tail blackish-grey. 
Legs and claws bright brownish-yellow. 
* [Through the kindness of M. Jules Yerreaux we are enabled to give 
a figure (Plate Y.) of the adult male of this fine species, discovered by 
Mr. Swinhoe in March 1864, and described by him, as referred to above, 
in the former series of 1 The Ibis.’— Ed.] 
