1877.] INHABITING THE INDIAN EEGION. 455 



Bafraclwsfomus inoniliijer, Blyth, Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 420, " Ceylon." 



Batrachostomus jmnctatus, Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 354, (S ?, "Ceylon;'' oj). cit. 187G, 

 p. 377. 



Batrachostomus moiiilitjer, Layard, Walden, J. A. S. B. 1875, pt. ii. ex. no. p. 84. P.Z.S.1877, 



Batrachostomus punctatus, Hume, Blanford, Ibis, 1877, p. 251, ex Ceylon. 



1 Batrachostomus moniliger, Layard, Hume, Str. F. iv. p. 376, " Travancore ; " Blanford, 

 t. c. p. 252. 



Hah. Ceylon, Travancore. 



Judging from Mr. Hume's detailed description (/. c.) of the specimen of a male obtained 

 by Mr. Bourdillon in Travancore, the range of the Ceylon bird may be safely extended to that 

 district of India. The iris of one of Mr. Bourdillon's specimens is stated to have been bright 

 yellow. 



No. 1, ? , almost adult C?) (PI. XLIX. in orig.), Rattabown * or Kattabown, Ceylon {mtis. 

 nostr.). Bright rufous ; of the same shade on the head and wing-coverts as B. affinis ? , but else- 

 where paler. Some stray rufous-brown feathers on the head and shoulders. Recurved frontal plumes 

 tawny rufous. Feathers in front of the eyes tawny rufous, with a distinct brown subterminal 

 transverse line or band and a narrow tawny-rufous terminal fringe. Behind these and passing 

 over the eyes some longer feathers, black-tipped, with outer webs pale tawny-white, inner webs 

 rufous, thus forming a pale supercilium. Long auriculars tipped brown. Four rows of nuchal 

 feathers rufous, with a broad white subterminal band confined between a narrow irregular rufous- 

 brown line above and below, the terminal fringe being rufous. In some of the nuchal plumes 

 the markings are better-defined than in others, where they become obsolete. The whole presents 

 the appearance of an irregularly formed white collar. Lesser wing-coverts unspotted, greater 

 with bold, ovoid, larger or smaller white spots at their tips, mostly situated on the outer webs, 

 and circumscribed more or less above and on their inner margins by a brown line. The 

 scapulars are pure rufous, tipped by a minute white or fulvous spot, mai-gined above with dark 

 brown or black. The tertiaries are pale rufous, much freckled with brown, and having still 

 minuter terminal spots of the same character as those on the scapulars. The primaries and 

 secondaries have their inner webs brown and their outer pale rufous, the brown of the inner webs 

 running through at intervals and forming narrow irregular bars. Many of the quills have 

 minute terminal white spots ; and all but the first have their tips clouded or freckled with rufous. 

 The axillaries are rufous brown. Under wing-coverts pale rufous, with some grey and sandy 

 white feathers. The chin is tawny rufous ; the upper throat bright rufous, with no concealed 

 white-marked plumes. Surrounding the lower throat a series of rufous plumes, broadly tipped 

 with pure white, which is separated from the rufous above by a narrow irregular brown line ; 

 below, the white marks are faintly fringed with pale tawny. This white necklace is followed 

 by the pure rufous of the upper breast, among which are no concealed white-marked feathers. 

 Lower breast-feathers of the same rufous, but more or less broadly tipped with white; an P.Z.8.1S77, 

 irregular narrow brown line separating the white from the rufous. This lower pectoral white P' 

 band descends to the flanks. Abdominal feathers and under tail-coverts pale dingy rufous, 



* The writing on the label is most difficult to decipher. 



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