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middles irregularly edged and barred with black ; belly, flanks, and under 

 tail-coverts brownish white, with a few faint reddish brown mottlings. 



"As will be seen, the length and width of the culmen are slightly 

 greater than in the types. There can not be the slightest doubt that these 

 three differently plumaged birds all belong to one species, though Mr. 

 Whitehead was inclined to believe that the dark and rufous forms 

 represented distinct species." (Grant.) 



Grant's measurements of the three specimens described above, reduced 

 to millimeters, are as follows: Male and female from Lepanto: Wing, 

 127 to 132; tail, 99 to 102; tarsus, 17 to 18; length of culmen, 19; 

 width at gape, 29. Male from Cape Engano: Wing, 131; tail, 104; 

 tarsus, 18 ; length of culmen, 22 ; i\ndth of gape, 32. 



In a female from Irisan, Benguet Province, the iris was pale yellowish; 

 bill light horn-brown, basal half of cutting edge dull pea-green; inside 

 of mouth brighter pea-green; legs and nails dirty white; edge of eyelids 

 brown. Wing, 132; tail, 101; culmen from base, 20; width of bill at 

 gape, 30; tarsus, 17. 



262. BATRACHOSTOMUS MENAGE! Bourns and Worcester. 

 MENAGE'S FEOGMOTJTH. 



Batrachostomns menagei Boubns and Worcester, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 11; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 43; Mc- 

 Gregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 51. 



? Batrachost omits sp. inc. Clarke, Ibis (1900), 355. 



Cow-cotc, Negros. 



Negros (Keay) ; Panay (Bourns & Worcester) . 



"Adult male. — Top of head rich dark-brown, slightly washed with 

 black; feathers of forehead buff, tipped with fulvous brown, forming a 

 distinct buff stripe reaching back to the eye; feathers of crown lighter 

 fulvous with spots of rufous-brown on the edges, each spot being sur- 

 rounded with black ; some of the feathers tipped with rufous, and having 

 black subterminal bands; occiput and nape with less black; elongated 

 auriculars tawny-buff, with black spots and bars, the tips being black; 

 sides of face tawny-buff streaked with black, lighter below; a distinct 

 buffy white nuchal collar formed by white subterminal bars on feathers 

 of neck, the bases of which are dark buff thickly vermiculated with black ; 

 their tips are black, and a black band intervenes between the white sub- 

 terminal band and the buffy bases of the feathers; feathers of back dark 

 brown, thickly vermiculated with black; feathers of rump fulvous-brown, 

 spotted with black and reddish brown toward their tips, these colors 

 assuming the form of irregular bands on upper tail-coverts; a few of 

 the shorter scapulars almost black with irregular bars of dark rufous- 

 brown; outer webs of longer scapulars light buff, the two outermost 

 feathers entirely of this color; the next scapulars have inner webs thickly 



