448 ON THE SPECIES OF BATEACIIOSTOMUS [1877. 



An example (mus. nostr.) marked East Africa {V) only differs from the foregoing by all the 

 quills beino- indented on their outer webs with pure rufous without any white. 

 P.Z.S.1877, jfo 7^ J {fi(fe Wardlaw Ramsay) ex Karennee, at 6000 feet elevation (specimen referred to 



^ " under the title of Otothrix hodgsoni, in Blyth's B. Burma, /. c). This example has the general 

 aspect of the three last described. The back has the rufous tinge of No. 5; but the white- 

 banded nuchal feathers are not more apparent than in No. 6. The scapulars are coloured and 

 marked as in the others ; but on one or two of the tectrices, near the end, on either web, is a 

 pure white spot. The white and the tawny rufous pectoral feathers are, here and there, tipped 

 with a darker brown. The tail-feathers are marked as in examples 5 and 6 ; but the general 

 tone is a shade more rufous or rusty. The markings on the quills arc somewhat more rufous 

 than in cither of the Malaccan birds. On the whole it is impossible to discern any character 

 which differentiates this example from the other three, more decided than the small differences 

 that distinguish each of the three Malaccan individuals from one another. Some of the 

 dimensions, however, are greater. Wing 5-0, tail 5*5, tarsus 0-62, middle toe 0-75, bill from 

 forehead 0'93, width of gape 1'12. The graduation of the quills and rectrices is as in the 

 others, and the tarsus as much, but not more feathered. The bill is as powerful. The iris is 

 stated by Lieutenant W. Ramsay to be marbled buff, bill light madder, legs the same tinged 

 with violet. The auricular plumes are not more developed than in Malaccan examples. 



d No. 8, (■?), neighbourhood of Darjeeling. Type of Otothrix hodr/soni, G. R. Gray. The 

 whole of the feathers of the head are much darker brown than in the foregoing ; each plume 

 has a pair of fulvous subterminal spots, one on the outer margin of either web. These fulvous 

 markings are very regular. Scapulars are all white or only so on the outer webs, some with 

 broad black subterminal bands. Nuchal collar-plumes fulvous near the shaft, each terminated 

 with a broad brown or black fringe, above which a broad white band, bounded by a narrow 

 brown line. Dorsal plumage mixed rufous, brown, and black. Ground-colour of the caudal 

 bands warm rufous and pale grey alternately, and all traversed with brown zigzag lines. The 

 rufous bands are about double the breadth of the grey. The gular collar-plumes are white 

 along the shaft ; a brown transverse line, then a broad white band followed by a narrow brown 

 terminal band fringed with fulvous. The most part of the pectoral and abdominal feathers are 

 white with black subterminal triangular drops tipped white. Two outer pairs of rectrices 

 indented with pure white on outer margin. "Wing-coverts brown with rufous marginal markings ; 

 greater coverts tipped with white drops. Wing 5T, tail 5-3, gape IT. Tarsus covered 

 anteriorly a quarter of its length. 



No. 9, nestling (Hodgson, 3Ius. Brit.). Above pale rufous, each feather with a sub- 

 terminal straight brown transverse narrow band. White scapulars indicated. Below white, 

 with a pale tawny brown transverse band on each feather. Gape 0'7. 



B.\TR.\cnosTOMUS coRNUTus. (Plate XL VI. in orig.) 



Podargns cortmtus, Temm. PI. Col. 159, "Bencoolen, Sumatra" (July 26, 1823). 

 P.Z.S.1877, Batrachostomus javensis (Horsf.), Sclater, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 211, " Banjermassinc:, Borneo." 



P- Batrachostomus jamnensis (Horsf.), Salvador!, Ucc. Borneo, p. 112, ? , " Sarawak " (1874) ; 



Walden, J. A. S. B. 1875, pt. ii. extra no. p. 84, " ex Sumatra." 



