Mr. R. Swinhoe on Formosan Ornithology. 309 
and tipped with pearly white ; the latter more conspicuously 
tipped. Shoulder-coverts bluish-grey; the rest of the coverts 
black, broadly margined with pearly-white and grey. Axillaries 
and tibials white, varied with black. Basal portion of vent- 
feathers black. Tail greyish-black, broadly edged with French- 
blue and tipped with white, the white increasing on the laterals; 
on the outermost it covers the apical third of the inner and 
two-thirds of outer web. Bill black. Legs and claws deep 
plumbeous. Tail somewhat graduated, having the outer feathers 
*3 inch shorter than the middle ones. Fourth, fifth, and sixth 
quills nearly equal, and longest in the wing. Winglet deep 
brown, edged with greyish blue, and without any white. 
The next novelty I have to describe was brought to me from 
the hills in January of this year. I find it to be one of my 
oldest Formosan acquaintances, having met with it on the hills 
at Hongshan below Tamsuy so long ago as March 1856, when 
on an adventurous visit to this island in a Portuguese Lorcha. 
I then found the little fellow^s nest, well observing the bird to 
be like a Zoster ops with a red crown. In later years, as I did 
not meet with the bird again, I tried to reconcile it with one of 
the species I had succeeded in procuring; for, be it known, the 
owner of the cup-shaped nest with pretty blue eggs proved 
himself too lively and cautious for my slow marksmanship. I 
pitched upon the Calamoherpe minuta , mibi, as being somewhat 
of the same size and having reddish on the crown. I felt so 
sure of this identification being correct, that in my paper on 
Formosan ornithology (Ibis, 1863, p. 306) I assigned the nest 
and eggs of my doubtful acquaintance without a comment to 
said known species. When my hunter brought me the right 
bird the other day, one glance sufficed to recall all, and in one 
leap before my vision appeared the brush-clad hills of Hongshan 
as they appeared ten years ago; I saw the deep cup-shaped nest 
with the small Redstart-like eggs, and I heard the short rattling 
chirp of the small u Redcrown 33 as I in vain dodged after him 
with my gun. I have no further doubts on the subject; and 
the whole clause, therefore, beginning from u It suspends ” to [Z 
u moves away/ ; instead of referring to Calamoherpe minuta , will 
