2. BATRACnOSTOMUS. 6-13 



by black Hues ; the quills are blackish with onlj- the outer webs 

 cinnamon-rufous; the rectrices are not quite uniform, but traversed 

 by darker bands at almost equal intervals and finely vermiculated 

 with black ; on the lower surface the throat and breast exhibit 

 large white rounded spots, separated from the rufous tips by a black 

 line ; these white spots form two bands, one across the lower throat 

 and one across the lower breast with a perceptible one between 

 them, but all of them are somewhat irregular. 



NestUnr/ (Sikkim). The upper surface is pale rufous-brown with 

 subterminal dark brown bars ; above and before the eyes and on the 

 scapulars appears a good deal of white ; under surface whitish, with 

 dark transverse bands. It is probably a male, and I believe that 

 the different coloration of the sexes in adult birds is already fore- 

 shadowed in that of the young birds. 



All the Himalayan specimens in the British Museum belong 

 without doubt to one species ; but from notes made bj' Mr. C. S. 

 Baker in Cachar, it becomes obvious to me that a second species 

 inhabits the hills south of the Brahmaputra, which is very likely a 

 new form, allied to B. monilu/ei: 



Hah. Eastern Himalayas, Sikkim, and probably farther to the 

 east ; Cachar and Manipur, probably reaching through the adjacent 

 hill-tracts into Burma, as a specimen obtained in Karennee by Major 

 Wardlaw-Ramsay belongs to this species. 



a. c? ad. ; h. Pull. Sikkim. Plodgson Coll. 



sk. (Types of the species.) 



c. (S innn. ; d, e. Sikkim. Hume Coll. 



2 ad. sk. 

 f-k. (S ; l-o. 2 Nat. Sikkim, Jan. to Nov. Hume Coll. 



ad. sk. (L. Mandelli). 



p. 2 ad. sk. Darjiling. Hume Coll. (Type 



of B. castaneus, Hume.) 

 y. 2 ad. sk. Manipur, April 24 (.i. O. If.). Hume Coll. 



r. cJ ad. sk. Kareimee, April 2 {E. G. Tweeddale Coll. 



W. R.). 



8. Batrachostomus ajfinis. 



Batrachostomus affinis, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1847, p. 1180, 

 1849, pp. 806, 807 ; id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 81, part. (1849 ; 

 Malacca) ; IVald. Ibis, 1876, p. 35o ; Blcmf. Ibis, 1877, p. 351 ; 

 Tiveedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 388 ; id. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 4:26, part. ; Himie, 

 Ibis, 1878, p. 120 ; id. Straij F. vi. p. 53 (1878) ; id. op. cit. viii. 

 p. 47 (1879; Malay PeDin.sula) ; Bingham, Straij F. ix. p. 149 

 (1880; Tenasserim) ; Oates, B. Burma, ii. p. 15, part. (1883). 



Adult male. Similar to the male of B. hodgsoni, but smaller ; the 

 general aspect of the upper parts not so blackish ; besides the more or 

 less distinct whitish band on the hind neck there is a reddish-brown 

 one before the latter, and the back and rump are more of a rufous tint ; 

 the under surface is also similar to that of B. hodgsoni, but the upper 

 breast is not so black, being more of a rufous-brown, forming a 

 rather pronounced band across the lower surface. Total length 



2x2 



