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78. Batrachostomus sp. inc. 



Head and hind-neck a fine mixture of black and fulvous, 

 the feathers terminally barred with broader bands of these 

 tints, producing a spotted appearance ; an indistinct buff 

 band from the forehead over the eye ; elongated auriculars 

 fulvous, banded and tipped with black ; nuchal collar banded 

 with buff, fulvous, and black ; mantle and lower back reddish 

 brown, closely vermiculated with black and darker than the 

 head ; upper tail-coverts similar, but more coarsely ver- 

 miculated ; scapulars plain cinnamon on the outer webs, 

 vermiculated with black on the inner webs, each feather 

 with a subapica] spot of black ; wing-coverts like the back, 

 some of the feathers with conspicuous apical spots of while ; 

 primary-coverts chiefly black ; primaries cinnamon, barred 

 with dusky on the outer webs, dusky on the inner webs ; 

 secondaries cinnamon, irregularly barred and mottled with 

 black on the outer webs, dusky in the centre and on the 

 inner webs ; tertials cinnamon, vermiculated with black ; 

 tail cinnamon-rufous, with transverse bands of a darker 

 tint, which are narrowly margined with black ; chin, throat, 

 and breast tawny, finely banded with black, the concealed 

 portion of the feathers of the upper breast being white 

 subterminally and mesially banded with black ; feathers of 

 the lower breast and abdomen chiefly whitish, margined with 

 tawny slightly vermiculated with dusky ; thighs and under 

 tail-coverts buff. Wing 5-5 inches, tail 4*2, tarsus 0*7, 

 culmen 1*0. 



The complex coloration of this bird renders it somewhat 

 diSicult to describe. Perhaps the most striking features 

 presented are the conspicuous lateral bands of cinnamon 

 formed by the plain outer margins of the scapulars. 



This enigmatical specimen was shot one afternoon in April 

 1899, as it rested on a shrub. Mr. Keay tells me that he 

 never saw a similar bird in Negros. 



Special interest attaches to this example, because it appears 

 to be undescribed. I have refrained, however, from giving it 

 a name, because of the possibility that the bird may eventually 

 prove to be the undiscovered female of B. menagei of Bourns 



