64 BATRACHOSTOMUS PÖLIOLOPHUS. 



inner webs of primaries pale cinnamon , inner webs dusky ; 

 secondaries similar in colour, innermost ones uniform cin- 

 namon ; rectrices cinnamon , lateral ones with distinct 

 whitish spots to the tips ; feathers of the lower parts pure 

 white, dusky at lowest bases and margined with rufous, 

 narrower on the feathers of the throat, much broader and 

 darker on the breast; lower wing-coverts brown and white; 

 elongated feathers and bristles of the ear-tufts and above 

 the bill and on the chin extremely long, longest 1.5 inches 

 in length. Total length nearly 9 inches, wing 5.3, tail 

 3.8, culmen 0.8, tarsus 0.55, width of gape 1.2. 



Habitat. Padang, Sumatra (Leyden Museum). 



The specimen is apparently in perfect plumage , only 

 the somewhat fluffy under tail-coverts indicate that it is a 

 younger specimen and, judging from analogies, the whitish 

 tips to the rectrices are remains of immaturity. 



This species has the long ear-tufts and tuft-bristles as 

 B. hodgsoni from the Himalayas, but it is easily distinguished 

 from it by the spotted wing-coverts, whiter lower parts and 

 unbarred rectrices. It agrees with B. stellatus in the spotted 

 wing-coverts, but it is distinguished from it by the white 

 abdomen and unbarred tail as well as by the long tufts 

 and tuft-bristles. 



Frankfurt a/ Main, February 1892. 



Note» from the Leyden AXvsetixii , \^ol. XIV. 



