300 Mr. E. Swinhoe on Formosan Ornithology. 
thrust through the bars he would fly at it with great fury, peck¬ 
ing and biting very hard, and charging again and again at it, 
each time with redoubled onslaught. He was always ready for 
a fight, and seemed by his manner to challenge it. He made 
no difference between stranger and acquaintance; but the pre¬ 
sence of several people cowed him, and he became shy. He was 
altogether the most pugnacious little bird I have ever seen, and 
in the way he went about his battles very similar in style to 
Leucodiophron chinense and L. taivanum. Before I had time 
to try him with insects, or, indeed, to learn much further about 
him, to my great annoyance I found him also cold and stiff at 
the bottom of the cage. The Chinese must have a secret for 
keeping them alive which I have not yet succeeded in possess¬ 
ing. In plumage and other respects the male and female seem 
in every way similar. I should like to introduce the species as 
Suthora bulomachus*, sp. nov. (Plate IX.) 
Supra fusco-olivacea; corona tectricibusque partim alarum, 
cum remigum marginibus, rufis; cauda alisque brunneis; 
rectricibus transversim vix striatis, earum externis pogoniis 
olivaceis: subtus albida; lateribus, tibiis crissoque oliva- 
ceis; axillaribus lacteis; pectore mentoque roseo suffusis 
et leviter fusco striatis; rostro brevi (fere Pyrrhulaceo) 
pedibusque pallide plumbeis. 
Long. 5*3, alse 2, caudse 2*4 poll. 
Bill light brownish-leaden, with a tinge of pale purple horn- 
colour on tip and edges. Irides rich brown. Legs and claws 
bright purplish leaden-brown, with dingy yellowish soles; nails 
pale horn-colour, purplish along their ridges. Head brick- 
red. Upper parts brownish-olive. Tail hair-brown, indistinctly 
barred on the rectrices, and edged exteriorly with olive-brown. 
Remiges a deeper hair-brown, broadly margined with brick-red, 
so as to make the wing look red for its greater part when closed. 
Wing-coverts tinged with reddish. Axilla pale cream-colour; 
inner edge and most of quills nearly white, showing the under¬ 
wing for the most part white. Breast and under neck washed 
with pale silvery rose-colour, with a few light streaks and freckles. 
Underparts dingy cream-colour; flanks, thighs, and vent oli¬ 
vaceous. 
* j3ov\6fiaxos, qui cupit pugnare. 
