642 PODAEGID^. 



Specimens from Borneo. 



c-e. 6;f. 2 ''id. sk. N.W. Borneo {Sir Hugh Loiv). Sharpe Coll. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Tumpussak R., N. Borneo. W. Pretyman, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 h. cJ ; i, k. 2 ad. sk. Lumbidan, Borneo. Uaslier Coll. 



I. Ad.; m. $ imm. Banj ermassing, Borneo. J. Motley, Esq. [P.], 



sk. 

 n, 0. Ad. sk. Banj ermassing, Borneo {J. Tweeddale Coll. 



Motley). 



Speeimem from Sumatra. 



n. S ad. sk. Sumatra. Wallace Coll. 



6. 2 ad. sk. Sumatra, Oct. (C«rZ5ocA;). Tweeddale Coll. 



c. 2 ad. sk. Lampong, S.E. Sumatra Tweeddale Coll. 



{E. a Buxton). 



7. Batrachostomus hodgsoni. 



Podargus affiuis, £li/th {nee Horsf.), Cat. B. Mus. As. Sac. p. 81, part. 

 (1849; Darjiling). 



Otothrix hodgsoni, Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p 101, pi. clii. ; Jerd. B. 

 Ind. i. p. 190 (1862) ; id. Ibis, 1871, p. 356; Hume, Stray F. ii. 

 p. 349 (1874) ; id. Ibis, 1878, p. 122. 



Batrachostomus castaneus, Hume, Stray F. ii. p. 349 (1874 ; Dar- 

 jiling), iv. p. 376 ; Blanf. Ibis, 1877, p. 251 ; Txveedd. Ibis, 1877, 

 p. 3b8 ; Hume, Ibis, 1878, p. 120. 



Batrachostomus hodgsoni, Blyth <§• Walden, B. Burm. p. 83 (1875) ; 

 Blanf. Ibis, 1877, p. 252; Hime (^ Davis. Stray F. vi. p. 52 

 (1878 ; Tenasserim) ; Hume, Stray F. viii. p. 85 (1879), ix. p. 34 

 (1888 ; Manipur) ; Oates, ed. Hume's Nests 8f Eggs Ind. B. iii. 

 p. 89 (1890). 



? Batrachostomus javensis, Godiv.-Ausf. J. As. Soc. Beng. xlvii. pt. 2, 

 p. 13 (1878 ; Naga Hills). 



Adult male. General aspect mottled with blackish and greyish ; 

 a more or less conspicuous 'n'hite nuchal collar formed by most of 

 the nuchal feathers being traversed by a white band ; scapulars 

 with more or less white ; quills dark brown, with large pale rusty 

 spots on the outer webs and with some tawny spots on the outer 

 margin of the inner webs ; lower surface much more whitish than 

 the upper surface ; the upper breast with a good deal of blackish 

 brown, above which colour is a white baud, generally very con- 

 spicuous ; the forehead and the ear-coverts are ornamented with 

 long, hair-like feathers with lateral filaments. Total length about 

 10-5 inches, wing 5-3, tail 5-8, tarsus 0-6, width of gape 1-2, 

 culmen 0-65 to 0*7. 



Adult female. Of the same size as the male. Plumage bright 

 cinnamon-rufous, paler and mixed with whitish buff on the lower 

 abdomen ; the nuchal feathers are traversed by a pure white band, 

 which is bounded above and below by a black line ; thus a more or 

 less evident white and black band is formed across the hind neck ; 

 some of the scapulars also have a long bold white mark, bordered 



