EUKY.STOMUS. 301 



"The size of all is about the same, the total length l)eing- about 'i2d to 

 254; wing, 135; tail, 132; tarsus, 14; culmen, 20; width of gape, 33 to 35. 



"The specimens described above are all from Borneo. Two females 

 in the British Museum from Sumatra, in reddish plumage, are lighter 

 than those from Borneo, being rather of a cinnamon-rufous color. The 

 patches on the lower throat are cream-colored, with a cinnamon-rufous 

 border and a blackish sul)terminal bar, but without any fui'ther blackish 

 bars. 



"These differences, however, seem to me not constant after comparing 

 the material in the Leyden Museum ; nevertheless, I have not yet heard 

 of any blackish specimens from Sumatra, and it must therefore be left 

 open to question at present whether it is possible to separate the Sumatran 

 and Bornean specimens specifically or subspecifically." (Harteii.) 



2(M. BATRACHOSTOMUS AFFINIS Blytli. 

 ALLIED FROGMOUTH. 



Batrachostomus affinis Blyth, .Jour. As. Soc. Bengal (1847), 1180; Tweeu- 

 UALE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1877), 426, pi. 45; Hartert. Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus. (1892), 16, 043: I:verett. Ibis (1895), 38; Sharpe, Hand-List 

 (1900), 2, 43; Mc(iRE(iOR and Worcester, Hand-List (1900), 51. 



Palawan (Everett, ^Vhite). Malay Peninsula, soutliern Tenasserim, Borneo, 

 Sumatra. 



Adult. — In plumage somewbat similar to B. javrn.sis. but of smaller 

 size. .Hartert gives the measurements of the male as follows: "Length, 

 about 216; wing, 114: tarsus, 13: width of gape. 25 to 30: culmen, 18 

 to 20." 



Female. — A specimen recently collected in Palawan by White resem- 

 bles the brown phase of B. javen.^is as described under that species. 

 The specimen was taken near Iwahig on July 10, 1908, with its nest 

 and two small nestlings. The adult bird measures: Wing, 115; tail, 

 113: cidmeii froui base. 20; widtli of gape, 33: tarsus, 15. 



Suborder (X)RACI.E. 

 Familv CORACIID^. 



Hill broad and slightly depressed: twelve tail-featliei's : |tet'tiuati()n of 

 middU' claw not comb-like: plumage not mottled, t'oloi's gaudy. 



Subfamily CORACIIN.^. 



({enus KrUYSTOMTS N'ieillot. LSIC. 



Bill short and bi'oad : width of gape about eijual to culmen : no I'ictal 

 bristles and the bi-istles about bill very shoi-t : tail scjuare. 



