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FORMOSA. 279
flying squirrels, and the Macroscdis ape are allied to those of Malaysia. More
than half of the Formosan avifauna is also more neatly related to those of the
Himalayas, South India, the Eastern Archipelago, and Japan than to those of the
more adjacent Chinese lands. Amongst the new forms discovered by Swinhoe the
most remarkable are some gallinaceac and pigeons, a magnificent pheasant, some
tomtits, sparrows, and the white-headed blackbird ;
Fig. 133. TYPHOON OP THE " XOVAKA."
Scale 1 : 8,520,000.
150 Miles.
but there are no parrots, as in
the central and southern provinces of China. While the continental yellowhammer
migrates in vast numbers between India and Manchuria, the Fonnosan
variety never leaves the island, merely passing with the seasons from the plains to
the uplands. In the Tumshui River singing fishes are heard, like those of Trinco-
mali Bay, Guayaquil, and San Juan del Norte.
Being visible from the mainland on clear days, Formosa has from the remotest