296 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIKDS. 



Suborder PODARGI. 

 Family PODARGID^. 

 Bill very broad and flat; ten tail-feathers; middle toe-nail not pecti- 

 nate; plumage mottled. 



Genus BATKACHOSTOMUS Gould, 1838. 



Bill extremely broad and short; culmen strongly curved; nostrils 

 covered by long hair-like plumes ; eyes rather large ; a bunch of elongated 

 feathers behind each eye; tarsus short, feet weak; outer and middle toes 

 united for half of their basal joint; tail moderately long, outermost 

 rectrices very short, the next pair considerably shorter than third; plum- 

 age lax, in color reddish brown, buft', or gray, with spots of white or 

 creamy fawn, barred and vermiculated with blackish brown. Birds of 

 this genus fly at night feeding upon insects and remain concealed in 

 dense forest during the day. Their capture is extremely uncertain and 

 difficult. The nest is a small pad-like structure saddled on a l)ranch of a 

 tree; the single egg is white. 



Hpecies. 



a\ A white or buff band across chest: another siniihir band across lower breast. 

 h\ Bill larger; culmen from base, 25 mm. or niore. 



(■'. Wing longer. 155 mm. or more Septimus (p. 29H) 



C-. Wing shorter. 140 mm. or less menagei ( |». 298) 



b-. Bill shorter: culmen from base, about 20 mm.: wing, about l.'iD. 



microrhynchus ( p. 297 ) 

 a-. No light band across under parts; throat and abdomen much mottled with 

 cream-color or light buff. 



b\ Wing more than IHO mm javensis ( j). :500) 



h". Wing less than 12.5 mm affinis (p. 301) 



2(J0. BATRACHOSTOMUS SEPTIMUS Tweeddalc. 

 TWEEDDALE'S FROGMOUTH. 



Batrachoaionius xrjtiiitius Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1877), 542; Chal- 

 lenger Report. Zool. (1881), 2, pt. 8, pi. 2; Hartert, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mu.s. (1892), 16, 0.38; Sharpe. Hand-List (1900). 2, 43; McGreook 

 and Worcester, Hand- List (190()), 50. 

 Basilan (C'elestino) ; Mindanao {Murrai/, Everett, Koch d- Hchadcnhertj, Bourns 

 d Worcester, Gooclfelloiv, Celestino) . 



Male. — General color rufous-brown ; wings and upper parts chestnut- 

 rufous mixed witii fine lines of lighter brown and blackish brown, taking 

 the form of obsolete bars on rectrices ; a narrow white l)and across mantle, 

 bordered on each side with blackish brown; outer welis of scapulars 

 whitish, each feather with a black spot near its tip; a wide creamy l)and 

 across the fore breast, each feather tipped and double barred with narrow 

 lines of blackish brown, the double bars concealed; another light band 



