296 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Suborder PODARGI. 
Family gg0DARGIDZ. 
Bill very broad and flat; ten tail-feathers; middle toe-nail not pecti- 
nate; plumage mottled. 
Genus BATRACHOSTOMUS Gould, 1838. 
Bill extremely broad and short; culmen strongly curved; nostrils 
covered by long hair-like plumes; eyes rather large; a bunch of elongated 
feathers behind each eye; tarsus short, feet weak; outer and middle toes 
united for half of their basal joint; tail moderately long, outermost 
rectrices very short, the next pair considerably shorter than third; plum- 
age lax, in color reddish brown, buff, or gray, with spots of white or 
creamy fawn, barred and vermiculated with blackish brown. Birds of 
this genus fly at night feeding upon insects and remain concealed in 
dense forest during the day. Their capture is extremely uncertain and 
difficult. The nest is a small pad-like structure saddled on a branch of a 
tree; the single egg is white. 
Species. 
a, A white or buff band across chest; another similar band across lower breast. 
b'. Bill larger; culmen from base, 25 mm. or more. 
Gh Wine onsen. oom. OT, MONG ce eet ee eee ee septimus (p. 296) 
e. Wang ‘shorter; 140 mmajor less0 eee he eee menagei (p. 298) 
b*. Bill shorter; culmen from base, about 20 mm.; wing, about 130. 
microrhynchus (p. 297) 
a>, No light band across under parts; throat and abdomen much mottled with 
eream-color or light buff. 
bi Wane: more: tha! 11'S Of rere ee eee eee eee javensis (p. 300) 
6, Wing less thant 25 Tom. tac. cee Stacia ns cate eee eee affinis (p. 301) 
260. BATRACHOSTOMUS SEPTIMUS Tweeddale 
TWEEDDALE’S FROGMOUTH, 
Batrachostomus septimus TWEEDDALE, Proc. Zool. Soe. (1877), 542; Chal- 
lenger Report, Zool. (1881), 2, pt. 8, pl. 2; Harrert, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. (1892), 16, 638; SHARPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 43; McGrrcor 
and WoRCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 50. 
Basilan (Celestino) ; Mindanao (Murray, Everett, Koch & Schadenberg, Bourns 
é Worcester, Goodfellow, Celestino). 
Male.—General color rufous-brown; wings and upper parts chestnut- 
rufous mixed with fine lines of hghter brown and blackish brown, taking 
the form of obsolete bars on rectrices ; a narrow white band across mantle, 
bordered on each side with blackish brown; outer webs of scapulars 
whitish, each feather with a black spot near its tip; a wide creamy band 
across the fore breast, each feather tipped and double barred with narrow 
lines of blackish brown, the double bars concealed; another light band 
