456 OX THE SPECIES OF BATEACHOSTOMUS [1877- 



mostl}' tipped with subdued whitish spots, surmounted by a narrow irregular brown line. The 

 middle rectrices are pale rufous, much freckled with pale brown zigzag lines and traversed by 

 seven or eight obscurely defined dark brown bands ; slight indications of white on the margins 

 of the webs ; laterals with the white indentations well marked, all tipped with a narrow white or 

 rufous-white fringe, and a small subterminal black mark. Frontal bristles tawny-rufous and 

 black-tipped. "Wing 4-50, tail 4-50, tarsus 0-50, middle toe 0-63, bill from front 0-80, width of 

 gape 1-25. 



The bill is massive ; the gradation of remiges and rectrices normal ; the upper fourth of the 

 exterior part of the tarsus is feathered. 



No. 2, 2 (^), Ceylon (inu.s. nosh:). General colour deep chestnut-bay or rufous-brown. 

 This example differs by its deep tone of rufous from the last, which, while of a general bright 

 chestnut, possesses a few feathers on the head and shoulders and all the axillaries of the deep 

 shade of rufous found in this example. In both the distribution of the white markings is the 

 same ; but in the present one the Avhite bars and the terminal rufous-brown fringes of the nuchal 

 collar-plumes are more pronounced. The minute black and white terminal dots on the scapulars 

 and tertiaries are less pronounced ; there are fewer and less distinct brown markings on the 

 rufous outer webs of the quills. The rectrices scarcely differ ; but the under tail-coverts are 

 more distinctly spotted. The feathers before the eye are darker, although also banded by a 

 black line. "Wing 4-50, tail 4-40, tarsus 0-GO, middle toe 065, bill from forehead 0-81, width of 

 gape 1-25. Structure as in No. 1. 



No. 3, d (Jide Mr. H. Nevill), immature (1), Eatnapura, Ceylon (vws. nosfr.). General 

 aspect greyish brown, much mixed with rufous-brown. Chin and throat dingy pallid rusty ; on 

 the lower throat pure rufous feathers, with a broad white terminal band separated from the rusty 

 colour by an irregular dark-brown line ; no rufous or brown terminal fringe. Breast uniform 

 rusty, with a few feathers on the sides, but not on the middle, broadly tipped with white and 

 traversed with a zigzag brown separating line. Abdomen and flanks pallid fulvous-rusty, each 

 feather for more than half of its terminal length greyish white, freckled with a number of minute 

 irregular transverse brown lines ; many tipped with minute whitish spots. Ventral feathers 

 pallid fulvous-rusty, and only tipped with vermiculations ; others and the under tail-coverts 

 almost uniform fulvous-rusty, with pallid terminal spots and subterminal brown marks. Frontal 

 feathers grey at insertion, freckled with brown, then rusty fulvous, with a subterminal black spot 

 and a terminal minute rusty mark. Feathers of the head brown, with similar terminal marks. 

 Superciliary plumes mostly rusty fulvous or buff on outer webs and brown on inner, with a black 

 terminal dot, giving the supercilium a uniform buff appearance. Elongated auriculars rusty- 

 P.Z.S.1877, tawny at base, freckled with brown, and pure brown at the tips. Nape with a distinct rufous 

 tinge ; a few feathers on each side broadly terminated with white, which is margined above by a 

 narrow brown line ; a few feathers on the middle of the nape slightly tipped with pure white, 

 some with fulvous. A rudimentary uncompleted nuchal collar is thus formed. Back and uropy- 

 gium rufous-brown like the nape, marked with cloudy brown striations and a few black terminal 

 dots. Upper tail-coverts rufous brown, with pale lateral subdued small spots or quasi-bands. 

 Scapulars greyish white, much marked with irregular pale-brown striae, tipped pale rufous, with 

 a small terminal black spot almost encircling a minute rufous point. The lower scapulars are 



