BATRACHOSTOMUS POLTOLOPHUS. 63 



NOTE XVIII. 

 ON A NEW SPECIES OF BATRACHOSTOMUS 



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ERNST HARTERT. 



When in February, on my return from London to Frank- 

 furt, I visited the Leyden Museum, 1 had — through the 

 liberality of the Director and the kindness of my friend 

 J. Büttikofer — the opportunity of examining the collect- 

 ion of Cypselidae, Caprimulgidae and P odar- 

 gidae in the Museum, and among them the unique spe- 

 cimen of Caprimulgus hinotatus ^ Bp. Cousp. I and Hartl. 

 Orn. W. Afr. , a most singular and distinct species, which 

 has no near ally. 



In a not yet revised lot of Podargidae I noticed a 

 specimen of Batrachostomus , collected by Horner in the 

 province of Padang in W. Sumatra in 1837. The label 

 which is attached to the stand of the specimen bears the 

 name of Podargus poUolophus Temm. n. sp. This name 

 however seems to be unpublished , but the bird is totally 

 dijBferent from all the species of the genus which have 

 been described until now. I give the following description 

 of it. 



Batrachostomus poUolophus. 



Female. Top of the head, back and rump bright cinna- 

 mon-rufous , a white collar formed by white bauds across 

 the feathers ou the hind neck; scapulars with large white 

 spots, encircled by a brownish black line; wing-coverts 

 cinnamon-rnfous with white tips; outer webs and tips of 



JSTotes from tlie Loyden Museutn, Vol. XJ.V. 



