Species 0/ Batrachostomus. 1(79 



with a blackish triangular one. Scapularies white, slightly 

 washed with fulvous, and marked with scarce, blackish, irre- 

 gular lines formed by narrow bars and edgings of the feathers. 

 Quills dark greyish brown, their outer webs pale buff, marked 

 with distant rufous bars, the latter being bordered with brown. 

 Tertiaries and tail-feathers pale sand-colour, transversely 

 mottled with dark brown. Tail with eight transverse sub- 

 triangular bars of a more rufous ground-colour, Avhich are in 

 markings and extension equal to the paler interspaces and 

 separated from these by a narrow dark brown border. Hair 

 feathers of the head blackish. Lores and eyebrows almost 

 uniform pale buff. Throat with a large buffy-white spot 

 showing some brown markings. Fore neck coloured like the 

 back ; rest of under surface pale buff, sparingly variegated 

 with brown. Under wing-coverts brown, mottled with buff; 

 axillaries buffy white ; under surface of quills and tail- 

 feathers similar in its markings to the upper surface, but much 

 paler and more greyish. Bill, feet, and nails light horn- 

 colour. 



Total length about 250 millims. ; length of wing 132 

 millims., of tail 143, of bill 20 ; width of bill at the gape 

 35 ; length of tarsus 15, of middle toe 15. 



Hob. Moeara Teweh, interior of S.E, Borneo. The speci- 

 men above described was collected by Dr. George Fischer, 

 who presented it to the Darmstadt museum. In a former 

 paper on Bornean ornithology (Abh. Ver. Brem. v. p. 456) I 

 have referred it doubtfully to B. " steUatus,^' Salvad. {B. 

 stictopterusj Cab. & Heine). The latter species having since 

 been found in the same locality by Dr. Fischer and submitted 

 to me for examination, I at once discovered that identification 

 to be quite erroneous ; for although the bird is almost of the 

 same size SiS B. stictopterus and B.javanensis (Horsf.), it is 

 at first glance distinguished from them by its greyish, mottled, 

 really cainimulgine plumage, and also by structural details. 

 The true B. stellatus (Gould) is, according to the original 

 description, quite different from either of these species. 



Besides B. adspersus and B. stictoptenis ^ Dr. Fischer has 

 also obtained the large B, auritus (Vig.) at Moeara Teweh. 

 To the latter species the Podargus Vincendoni (Jacq. & Puch.), 

 established on a specimen from Banjermassing, is perhaps 

 referable, although the description does not perfectly agree 

 with Vigors's bird. 



¥ "H 



