432 THE MARaUIS OFTWEEDDALE ON BATRACHOSTOMUS. [May 15, 



tion (specimen referred to under the title of Otothrix hodgsoni, in 

 Blj-th's B. Burma, /. c.) . This example has the general aspect of the 

 three last described. The back has the rufous tinge of No. 5 ; but 

 the white-banded nuchal feathers are not more apparent than in No. 6. 

 The scapulars are coloured and marked as in the others ; but on one 

 or two of the tectrices, near the end, on either web, is a pure white 

 spot. The white and the tawny rufous pectoral feathers are, here 

 and there, tipped with a darker brown. The tail-feathers are marked 

 as in examples 5 and 6 ; but the general tone is a shade more rufous 

 or rusty. The markings on the quills are somewhat more rufous 

 than in either of the Malaccan birds. On the whole it is impossible 

 to discern any character which differentiates this example from the 

 other three, more decided than the small differences that distinguish 

 each of the three Malaccan individuals from one another. Some of 

 the dimensions, however, are greater. Wing 5 0, tail 5*5, tarsus 

 0-62, middle toe 075, bill from forehead 0'93, width of gape 112. 

 The graduation of the quills and rectrices is as in the others, and 

 the tarsus as much, but not more feathered. The bill is as powerful. 

 The iris is stated by Lieutenant W. Ramsay to be marbled buff, bill 

 light madder, legs the same tinged with violet. The auricular 

 plumes are not more developed than in Malaccan examples. 



(J No. 8, (?), neighbourhood of Darjeehng. Type of Otothrix 

 hodgsoni, G. R. Gray. The whole of the feathers of the head are much 

 darker brown than in the foregoing ; each plume has a pair of fulvous 

 subterminal spots, one on the outer margin of either web. These 

 fulvous markings are very regular. Scapulars are all white or only so 

 ou the outer webs, some with broad black subterminal bands. 

 Nuchal collar-plumes fulvous near the shaft, each terminated with 

 a broad brown or black fringe, above which a broad white band, 

 bounded by a narrow brown line. Dorsal plumage mixed rufous, 

 brown, and black. Ground-colour of the caudal bands warm rufous 

 and pale grey alternating, and all traversed with brown zigzag lines. 

 The rufous bands are about double the breadth of the grey. The 

 gular collar-plumes are white along the shaft ; a brown transverse line, 

 then a broad white band followed by a narrow brown terminal band 

 fringed with fulvous. The most part of the pectoral and abdominal 

 feathers are white with black subterminal triangular drops tipped 

 white. Two outer pairs of rectrices indented with pure white on 

 outer margin. Wing coverts brown with rufous marginal markings ; 

 greater coverts tipped with white drops. Wing 5' 1, tail 5.3, gape 

 1-1. Tarsus covered anteriorally a quarter of its length. 



No. 9, nestling. (Hodgson, Mus. Brit.'). Above pale rufous, each 

 feather with a subterminal straight brown transverse narrow band. 

 White scapulars indicated. Below white, with a pale tawny brown 

 transverse band on each feather. Gape 07. 



Batrachostomus cornutus. (Plate XLVL). 



Podargus cornutus, Temm. PI. Col. 159, " Bencoolen, Sumatra" 

 (July 26, 1823). 



