2. BATRACHOSTOMTJS. 639 



rufous ; white bands across the leathers of the hind neck forming a 

 semicoUar ; scapulars with large white patches, each of which 

 is encircled by a brownish-black line ; wing-coverts cinnamon 

 rufous, with white tips ; onter webs and tips of inner webs of pri- 

 maries pale cinnamon, inner Avebs dusky ; innermost secondaries 

 uniform cinnamon ; rectrices cinnamon, the lateral ones with 

 narrow whitish spots at the tips, which, I believe, are remains of 

 immaturity ; feathers of the lower surface pure white, dusky at the 

 extreme base, margined with rufous, narrower on the feathers of 

 the throat, much broader and darker on those of the breast; bristles 

 on the elongated ear-tufts and on the forehead extremely long, 

 longest about 1'5 inches in length. Total length nearly 9 inches, 

 wing 5-3, tail 3-8, culmen 0-8, tarsus 0-55, width of gape 1-2. 



This very distinct species agrees with B, steV.atus in the distinctly 

 spotted wing-coverts, but differs from it in the white abdomen and 

 the entirely unbarred rectrices ; it has the long bristles and ear- 

 tufts of -S. hodgsoni, but is easily distinguished from the latter by 

 the distinctly spotted wing-coverts. 



Hab. Padang, W. Sumatra {Leyden Museum). 



5. Batrachostomtis stellatus. 



Podargus stellatus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, j). 43. 



Batrachostomus stellatus, Grm/, Gen. B. i. p. 45 (1846) ; id. List B. 



Brit. Mus. ii. pt. i. p. 3 (1848) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 45 (1869) ; Cass. 



Cat. Cajmm. Mus. Philad. p. 8 (1851); Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. 



B. Mus. E. I. Comp. i. p. 388 (1854) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, 



p. 266: Cab. ^- Seine, Mtts. Rein. ii. p. 123 (1860) ; Scl. P. Z. 8. 



1863, p. 212; 8ah-ad. Ucc. Borneo, p. 113 (1874); l\veedd. Ibis, 



1877, p. 389 ; id. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 436, pi. xlvii. ; >Sharj)e, Ibis, 



1879, p. 249 (Borneo): mane. Stray Feath. viii. p 48 (1879 ; 



Malay Pen.). 

 Batrachostomus javensis, Blyth, J. As. Soc. Bcmj. 1847, p. 1181, 



part, (iiec Horsf.). 

 Batrachostomus javauensis, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. Beng. 



p. 81 (part.), spec. Malay. (1849). 

 Podargus parvulus, Schley. J. f. 0. 1856, p. 460 (Borneo and 



Malacca); id. Handl. Dierk. i. pp. 224, 481, Atlas, pi. ii. fig. 15 



(1857) : Blyth, Ibis, 1862, p. 304. 

 Batrachostomus parvulus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 57 (1850). 

 Batrachostomus stictopterus, Cab. Sf Seine, Mus. Sein. ii. p. 124 



(1860 ; Malacca) ; Gray, Sand-l. i. p. 54 (1869) ; Ticeedd. Ibis, 



1877, p. 389. 



Adult male. Upper surface deep brown ; a collar on the hind 

 neck formed by creamy-white bands across the nuchal feathers ; 

 scapulars and greater wing-coverts with bufty-white spots ; tail 

 brown, narrowly barred with dusky ; feathers of the underparts 

 buff, with blackish bases and brown margins, the latter much 

 broader on the throat and breast and naiTOW on the abdomen, thiLS 

 causing the breast to appear dark brown and the abdomen gradually 

 lighter, lightest on the under tail-coverts. Total length about 10 

 inches, wing 5, tail 4-8, width of gape 1'3 to 1-4, much smaller in 

 young birds, culmen 0-9. 



