402 Mr. It. Swinhoe on Formosan Ornithology . • 
his description of them I concluded that they must have been 
the Black Stork or some cognate species of Ciconia. They 
were not known to the residents of the interior; and I thence 
infer that they were only straggling winter wanderers. 
By the side of a mountain-stream I saw a Butorides javanica; 
and a Cormorant, I think the ordinary species, came flying 
down on rapid wing. The guides shouted et There is the Stork 
you so much want.” This was on the 22nd. We were march¬ 
ing over the rough path by the side of a torrent, and were, on 
our guard against treacherous attacks from any skulking savage, 
all armed with guns, matchlocks, or spears. We took a long 
rest under the shade of a tree hard by a wood. Green Doves 
appeared. One of the hunters dropped away and bagged a 
male. It was the white-bellied species, Sphenocercus sororius 
[antea , p. 311]. In mature specimens the male has a fine glow 
of buff on the breast and forehead. By the banks of the stream 
occasional raised patches of stones covered with coarse grass 
occurred. In these lay hid Goatsuckers ( Caprimulgus stictomus ), 
which fluttered up before us to drop again into the grass a few 
paces further on. As they steal along on silent wing at night 
they utter occasionally a subdued croak. 
On the 24th of February I spied a Graucalus rex-pineti sitting 
on a high tree over my head. His notes sounded like “ queer- 
queer” uttered nasally. I also observed a pair of Parus 
insperatuSj in manners a good deal like the Great and Coal 
Titmice. 
About twenty miles from Takow, on the plains, I saw a 
Corvus colonorum. This is the first instance that has come 
under my notice of this bird occurring away from the mountain- 
range. 
I have just picked out a few jottings from my journal on the 
birds seen in the interior. I have not now time to spin a yarn 
on my travels. This I must reserve to some future date. I 
left Takow on the 11th of March and on the 13th reached Amoy, 
where I am now a fixture for some time to come. 
Through the kind assistance of Mr. Thomas Watters, who is 
Acting-Consul in my place at Taiwan, I am able to keep my 
hunters in Formosa still at work; and it is through his good 
