EURYSTOMUS. 301 



"The size of all is about the same, the total length being about 229 to 

 254; wing, 135; tail, 132; tarsus, 14; culmen, 20; width of gape, 33 to 35. 



"The specimens described above are all from Borneo. Two females 

 in the British Museum from Sumatra, in reddish plumage, are lighter 

 than those from Borneo, being rather of a cinnamon-rufous color. The 

 patches on the lower throat are cream-colored, with a cinnamon-rufous 

 border and a blackish subterminal bar, but without any further blackish 

 bars. 



"These differences, however, seem to me not constant after comparing 

 the material in the Leyden Museum; nevertheless, I have not yet heard 

 of any blackish specimens from Sumatra, and it must therefore be left 

 open to question at present whether it is possible to separate the Sumatran 

 and Bornean specimens specifically or subspecifically." (Hartert.) 



264. BATRACHOSTOMUS AFFINIS Blyth. 

 ALLIED FROGMOITTH. 



Batrachostomus afftnis BLYTH, Jour. As. Soc. Bengal (1847), 1180; TWEED- 

 DALE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1877), 426, pi. 45; HARTERT, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus. (1892), 16, 643; EVERETT, Ibis (1895), 38; SHABPE, Hand-List 

 (1900), 2, 43; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 51. 



Palawan (Everett, White). Malay Peninsula, southern Tenasserim, Borneo, 

 Sumatra. 



Adult. In plumage somewhat similar to B. javensis, but of smaller 

 size. Hartert gives the measurements of the male as follows : "Length, 

 about 216; wing, 114; tarsus, 13; width of gape, 25 to 30; culmen, 18 

 to 20." 



Female.^ A specimen recently collected in Palawan b}^ White resem- 

 bles the brown phase of B. javensis as described under that species. 

 The specimen was taken near Iwahig on July 10, 1908, with its nest 

 and two small nestlings. The adult bird measures : Wing, 115 ; tail, 

 113; culmen from base, 20; width of gape, 33; tarsus, 15. 



Suborder CORACLE. 

 Family CORACIID^. 



Bill broad and slightly depressed; twelve tail-feathers; pectination of 

 middle claw not comb-like ; plumage not mottled, colors gaudy. 



Subfamily CORACIIN^E. 

 Genus EURYSTOMUS Vieillot, 1816. 



Bill short and broad; width of gape about equal to culmen; no rictal 

 bristles and the bristles about bill very short ; tail square. 



