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large terminal whitish spots, which are separated from the reddish- 

 brown colour by a black line, to the feathers of the abdomen. Size 

 like that of the male. 



Younger males seem to be not so reddish as older birds. 



Nestling. A nestling from Mynall, S. Travancore, is in the reddish 

 plumage, but the back, wing-coverts, and abdomen are more greyish 

 brown. 



Some male specimens are very much darker than others. One 

 specimen, marked as a young male, is in a plumage which only partly 

 resembles that of the adult male, the wing-coverts, throat, and 

 breast being of the reddish colour of the female. The tyjje of 

 Hume's B. punctatus is exceptionally small, the wing measuring 

 only 4-3 inches, but in plumage it quite agrees with other larger 

 specimens. 



The reddish bird agrees with B. stellatus in the white spots on 

 the greater wing-coverts, but is easily distinguished by the colour of 

 the lower parts. Besides this it has the characteristic narrow sub- 

 terminal spots to the scapulars, which do not show the largo whitish 

 spots to be seen in B. stellatus. 



Hah. Ceylon and Travancore hills. 



a. S •,1), c, d. $ Ceylon, Feb. {H. Nevill). Tweeddale Coll. 



ad. sk. 



e. S imm. sk. Ceylon. Legge Coll. 



/,y. Sk. Kandy, Ceylon (^. H%<e). Sharps Coll. 



/*. c? ; «• 2 sk. Ceylon. Hume Coll. 



( c? . Type of B. punctatus, Hume.) 



k. (5 ad. sk. Ceylou. H. Cuming [C.]. 



/. (S; 7n. 2 ; h. Mynall, S. Travancore, Dec, Hume Coll. 



Imm. sk. Feb., Mar. (F. W. Bourdillon). 



o. (S ad. sk. Madras. Brenchlev Coll. 



p. <S ad. sk. [Ceylon ?] Gould CoU. 



Subfamily II. tEGOTHELIN^. 



The species of the genus ^gotheles differ in siich important points 

 from those of the genus Podargus and Batracliostomus that they 

 must be separated as a subfamily. Thej' have also five phalanges in 

 the outer toe and the claw of the middle toe not pectinated ; but 

 they have a very different bill and a different mode of nidification. 

 The Australian species lays white eggs in hollow trees, but those of 

 the ^gotheles ivallacei (A. B. Meyer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. 18S4, 

 pi. xvii., and in the collection of Mr. Crowley) are marked with 

 pale stria tions. 



Range. Australia and Papuasia. 



