G44 rODAEGID^. 



about 8-5 inches, wing 4-5, tail 4-o, tarsus 0-5, width of gape 1 to 

 1-2, culmen 0-7 to 0-8. 



Adult female. Similar to the female of B. Jiodgsoni, but smaller, 

 of the same size as the male of B. affinis. Colour of the upper 

 parts of a much darker reddish brown. Lower parts also darker, 

 rather of a dark cinnamon-rufous colour, the white spots less 

 numerous and smaller, the lower abdomen not so whitish. 



Young. I have not seen anj- properly determined young birds, 

 but one before me is dark foxy brown with blackish bars and undu- 

 lations, and with the white markings of the adult. It is probably a 

 male. 



Hab. The Malay Peninsula and North-western Borneo. (Pro- 

 bably occurring in Eastern Sumatra.) 



a. c? ; 6, f. 2 ad. et Malacca, March, July. Hume Coll. 



imm. sk. 



d. 2 ad. ; e. S ad. Malacca. J. Harvey, Esq. [P.], 



sk. and Purchased. 



/, g, h. S ad. ; i. Malacca {Dr. Maingay). Tweeddale Coll. 



p ad. sk. 



k. Ad. sk. Mt. Diilit, N.W. Borneo. C. Hose, Esq. [C.]. 



9. Batrachostomus moniliger. 



Batrachostomus moniliger, Bhjth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1849, p. 806, 

 2 (Ceylon) ; Jerd. B. Ind. p. 189 (1862 ; S. India) ; Blyth, Ibis, 

 1862, p. 304, note (Ceylon) ; id. Ibis, 1867, p. 311 ; Gray, Hrmd-l. 

 i. p. 54 (1869); HokfsiO. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 420 (Ceylon); Legge, 

 Ibis, 1874, p. 12 ; Hume, Strmj Fenth. iii. p. 198 (1875), iv. 

 p. 376 (1876); Tweedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 389; id. P. Z. S. 1877, 

 p. 439, pis. xlviii., xlix. ; Blanf. Ibis, 1877, p. 251 ; Hume, Ibis, 

 1878, p. 120 ; Legge, B. Ceijlon,'Y>. 331 (1880) ; Davison, Ibis, 1888, 

 p. 147 ; Oafes, ed. Hume's Nests ^- Eggs Lid. B. iii. p. 38 (1890). 



Batrachostomus punctatus, Hume, Stray Fecdli. i. p. 432 (1873 ; 

 Cevlon) ; Blanf. Ibis, 1877, p. 251 ; Tweedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 388 ; 

 Hu772e, Ibis, 1878, p. 120. 



Adult male. Above, head and neck greyish brown with sub- 

 terminal blackish spots ; a white collar, generally very distinct, on 

 the hind neck ; the rest of the i;pper parts brown and greyish, with 

 many black vermiculations and very perceptible subterminal black 

 spots, and with much white on the scapulars ; quills dark smoky 

 brown, with the outer webs cinnamon-rufous for their greater part; 

 lower parts mixed brown, grey, and black, with a more or less in- 

 distinct white band, and much white on the abdomen ; vent and 

 under tail-coverts paler brown, often nearly uniform isabelline. 

 Total length about 9 inches, wing 4-6 to 4-85, tail 4-5, culmen 0-78, 

 width of gape 1-3 to 1-4. 



Adult female. Reddish brown ; an indistinct white collar on 

 the hind neck ; pale tips and narrow subterminal black spots to the 

 scapulars ; greater wing-coverts with terminal white spots, separated 

 by a black line : below reddish brown like the upper surface, the 

 abdomen much paler ; an indistinct white band across the breast ; 



