1877.] INHABITING THE INDIAN EEGION. 449 



Hah. Sumatra, Borneo. 



Doria, according to Salvador!, I. c, notes the iris of the female, ex Sarawak, as being light 

 yellow (giallo chiaro). 



In the British Museum is preserved an example of B. cornutus, in rufous plumage, from 

 Banjermassing, identical with an example obtained by Mr. Buxton in South-east Sumatra. The 

 national collection also possesses examples from Sumatra, from Banjermassing, and from Labuan, 

 in grey spotted and striated plumage, which vary but slightly from one another. Podargus cor- 

 nutus is the title substituted by Temminck for that of P. javensis, Ilorsf , in the belief that the 

 Javan and Sumatran species were identical, on account of Horsfield's designation o-ivino- too 

 restricted an idea of the geographical distribution of the species. The bird figured and described 

 by Temminck (l. c), however, is not in the absolute grey or mottled plumage of the male bird, 

 but rather in the darker rufous-brown phase of the female, when the upper plumao'e is marked 

 with fine narrow irregular transversal black markings. Dr. Jerdon (I. c.) treated P. coniuhis as 

 figured in Shaw's General Zoology (xiii. pt. 2, p. 92, t. 41), as belonging to a species distinct from 

 £. Javatiensis, Horsf. Shaw's engraving was copied from Temminck's plate (/. c). 



No. 1, 2 (l) adult (1) ex Lampong district, S.E. Sumatra {mns. nostr.). General colour 

 pale clear rufous, somewhat paler than in B. affinis ? adult, the description of which species 

 will more or less apply to this kind in almost every respect but size. But the wings and tail are 

 of a pale rufous-buff rather than rufous. The throat-feathers are nearly all white, and are without 

 any transverse brown lines. Below they are bordered with a brown line, and then frincred with 

 rufous. Many more of the pectoral feathers have white centres ; and these are all more elono-ated 

 than round on the upper breast. Most of the flank-feathers are largely centred with white 

 which does not seem to be the case in B. affinis, ex Malacca. The white markings, from bein"- 

 more numerous and larger, are much more conspicuous on the under surface than in B. affinis ; 

 and they reach to the vent. The greater wing-coverts are also faintly tipped with pale albescent 

 dots. The elongated auricular plumes are rufous to the tips and not brown. Win"- 5-50, tail 

 5-37, tarsus 0*68, middle toe 0-75, bill from forehead 1-12, width of gape 1-38. A few feathers 

 on the anterior surface of tarsus. 



No. 2, ? (?) adult, ex Banjermassing {Mus. Brit.), closely resembles the Lampong female (?), 

 but has the gular plumes differently marked. They are white on both sides of the shaft ; an 

 irregular transverse brown line crosses the feathers when the down ceases, followed by a white or 

 fulvous white band, which is bordered below by a brown transverse line, below which is a broad 

 white band finally margined with brown. A few feathers on the tarsi. Wing 5-30, width of P.Z.S.L877, 

 gape 1*30. Other dimensions as in Lampong example. P' '^''''^' 



No. 3, 2 (?) young, an immature example of B. cornntns in rufous dress, ex Banjermassing, 

 in the British Museum, is almost entirely of a pale isabelline-rufous, freckled with dark irregular 

 transverse zigzag lines. Here and there, especially on the head, the uniform rufous feathers of 

 the older stage have come in, and also a few of the white scapular, nuchal, and pectoral plumes. 

 The mandibles are weak, evidently not full-grown ; but the width of the gape is equal to that 

 of B. affinis when adult, and the wing is longer than in that species, otherwise it would be difiicult 

 to determine to which species it belongs. Wing 5"10, tail 4"60, width of gape 1-10. 



No. 4, 6 (?) adult (?), ex Banjermassing (Motley, ?/ms. ■reosi^r.). (PL XLVI. m ony.) Were it 



