392 Mr. R. Swinhoe on Formosan Ornithology . 
the Peninsula; but I propose, on some future occasion, to 
publish in this Magazine a complete list of the species that have 
come under my notice, either in a wild state or in collections, 
with their scientific and local Spanish names, and the localities in 
which I met with them. 
Lilford, August 1866. 
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XXXI.— Ornithological Notes from Formosa. By Robert 
Swinhoe, Her Majesty’s Consul at Taiwan, E.Z.S., &c. 
(Plate XI.) 
[Continued from p. 316.] 
I returned from the mountains, having penetrated to about the 
centre of the island. I was there arranging to climb across to 
Black Rock Bay, on the east side, when a letter reached me, and 
caused me to hurry back with all speed to Takow. It brought 
me instructions to repair by first vessel to Amoy to take charge 
of the consulate there. I was altogether ten days in the interior; 
but as I am now hurried I must defer my sketch of the trip for 
a future paper. I bid a long farewell to Formosa in a few days. 
I will, however, attempt, before I leave, to finish my descriptions 
of novelties and the like. I commence with 
Myiomela montium , nobis (Ibis, 1864, p. 362), $ . Wing 3*5 
inches. Bill blackish-brown. Legs brown, claws paler. Plumage 
olivaceous, tinged in parts with buff; throat paler, with roots of 
feathers whitish. A concealed white spot on side of the neck. 
Abdomen more or less grey, its middle pure white. Axillaries 
olive-buff. Under margins of remiges light reddish-buff, making 
the under part of closed wing reddish on its inner half. Quills 
edged exteriorly with reddish olive-brown. Rectrices olive- 
brown ; the second to the fifth (the outermost being counted as 
first) having white on the outer web, the third only a little close 
to its root, the second more, and the third and fourth for more 
than half their lengths; the neighbourhood of the white strongly 
shaded with black, as are all the rectrices near their roots. Outer 
tail-feathers in one specimen entirely black, showing, I presume, 
either that the particular specimen is a young male in moult, or 
