458 OX THE IXDIAN SPECIES OE BATEACIIOSTOMTJS. [1877. 



white drops, margined above with a narrow dark brown line, thus forming a white necklace. 

 Upper pectoral plumes like those of the chin and throat, but with subterminal dark brown marks 

 and some admixture of grey in the ground-colour, some faintly tipped with greyish white, others 

 with fulvous. Lower pectoral plumes pale fulvous-grey, with transverse dingy brown irregular 

 lines, and broadly tipped with pure white, faintly edged with brown. Lower down these white- 

 tipped plumes have a much more white than fulvous ground at the base. Abdominal feathers 

 fulvous, terminated with white, and transversely striated with pale greyish brown. Ventral 

 region and under tail-coverts fulvous-rusty, with obscure white terminal spots and subdued sub- 

 terminal brown marks. Under wing-coverts the same. Axillaries dingy fulvous-grey, tipped 

 almost white. Frontal rigid plumes and bristles black. Wing 4'75, tail 4'75, tarsus 0'50, 

 middle toe OwO, bill from forehead 0"90, width of gape 1"20. 



Structure normal. Tarsus feathered anteriorly for a quarter of its length. 



No. 5, d (i), ex Malabar "? (Mtcs. Brit.). This specimen is labelled Madras ; but its mode 

 of preparation is what we find in all west-coast trade skins. None of my Ceylon examples 

 resemble it excepting in the white collars, scapulars, and pectoral plumes ; and these last are not 

 so prominent as in B. monilirjer 6 , ex Ceylon. 



General coloration mixed grey, fulvous, black, and white ; only traces of pale rufous. 

 Frontal plumes tawny at base, much vermiculated with brown and with black subterminal spots 

 or bands. Feathers of the head and occipital crest pale ashy brown, many with black subter- 

 minal spots, and all tipped with very pale fulvous ; equally pale fulvous spots on either web ; 

 others so marked and coloured, but without the black spots. Feathers comprising the nuchal 

 P.Z.S.1S77, collar tawny at base, with a few fine transverse irregular pale brown striae, succeeded by a 

 ^' ' broader brown mark and then a broad white band, tipped with black and margined with fulvous. 

 Elongated auriculars tawny at base, traversed by numerous irregular fine pale brown lines and 

 tipped dark brown. Space before the eye buff. A supercilium composed of buff feathers 

 unstriated on outer webs, but lineated with brown on inner. Ear-coverts almost unmarked, pale 

 ferruginous-buff. Shorter scapulars pure white, with several transverse zigzag brown lines, 

 a black tip with a faint fulvous terminal dot. Inner webs of longer scapulars with a grey (not 

 a white) ground ; the inner web of others tawny-rufous, all lineated transversely with brown. 

 Innermost tertiaries pale grey, with numerous transverse pale brown irregular lines and a 

 terminal black mark. Back like the head. Uropygium brown, with fulvous transverse marks ; 

 no terminal black spots. Upper tail-coverts tawny rufous, with a dark brown subterminal mark 

 and a pallid tawny terminal dot. Ground-colour of middle pair of rectrices rufo-fulvous, much 

 mottled with brown, towards apex grey, marked with brown and black. No distinct banding. 

 Next pair with bands more defined. Short outer pair pale ferruginous, with brown markings. 

 Chin and throat pale fulvous, with fine transverse brown lines ; some with broader brown sub- 

 terminal marks and terminal almost white marks. A gular collar formed by broad pure white 

 terminal bands to the lower throat-plumes, surmounted by a narrow brown intersecting line. 

 The pectoral feathers, below this collar, pale brown, lineated as on the throat, and with fixint 

 albescent tips. Lower pectoral plumes pale fulvous, with broad white terminal halves much 

 striated with dark brown. Abdominal plumes of the same character, but less striated and the 

 white confined to the tips, bounded above by a brown line. Under tail-coverts pure pale rusty 



