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minated with rufous-brown. Shorter scapulars white- centred to- 

 wards the end, the white being separated from the rufous edging 

 by a brown mark. Longer scapulars with all the outer webs and a 

 small part of the inner, near the shaft, white, which colour is more 

 or less enclosed by a brown or rufous-brown irregular line, edged 

 with rufous, inner webs rufous. Chin tawny rufous. A patch of 

 feathers commencing at the middle of the throat, and expanding 

 lower down the throat, pure white and rufous-white, each feather 

 being traversed by an ill-defined narrow pale-brown line ; a brown 

 subterminal line fringed with rufous. Many of the concealed pec- 

 toral feathers marked in a similar manner, but without the transverse 

 narrow line. Longer pectoral plumes whity brown, edged with a 

 rufous fringe. Back and abdominal feathers paler rufous, centred with 

 white, and with an outer white terminal double or single spot, or with 

 outer webs only white. Ventral region pale tawny-rufous. Quills 

 rufous- brown, outer webs pale rufous, with faint brown marking. 

 Wing-coverts uniform chestnut-colour. Under wing-coverts pale 

 rufous faintly barred with brown. Wing 4.85, tarsus 0'50, middle 

 toes 0-68, bill from forehead 0'87, width of gape 1-12. 



The tarsus is not feathered much below the knee ; otherwise the 

 structure is normal. In Horsfield's type the dimensions are, wing 

 5"75, tarsus 0'50, width of gape 1-12, bill from forehead 0'87. 



The male has not been described, nor have I succeeded in meeting 

 with an example ; but if Prince Buonaparte had authentic Javan 

 individuals before him, we may infer from the passage above quoted 

 (/. c.) that it possesses the grey and brown mottled plumage of Ji. 

 cornutus and B. affinis. Indeed, if the specimen in the Calcutta 

 Museum, described by Dr. Jerdon (/. c.) really came from Java, 

 there can be no doubt on the point. Dr. Jerdon even states that 

 this specimen was " barely (if indeed at all) distinguishable from 

 Otothrix hodgsoni." It may even be doubted whether B. affinis 

 can be considered distinct from B. javensis ; but there appears to be 

 a discrepancy in the dimensions, and the white on the throat in B. 

 affinis seems to be restricted to the gular collar. 



Batrachostomus stellatus. (Plate XLVII.) 



Podargus stellatus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 43, "Java " (?). 



Batrachostomus javensis (Horsf.), Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1847, p. 

 1181, partim, nee Horsf. 



Podargus javanensis, Horsf., Blyth, Cat. Calc. Mus. p. 81, no. 

 404 partim, "Avis juv. ex Malacca," nee Horsf. (1848). 



Batrachostomus javanensis (Horsf.), Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1849, p. 

 807, nee Horsf. 



Podargus pai-vulus, T., Schlegel, Handleid. d. Dierkunde, Atlas, 

 t. ii. f. 15, "Sumatra" (1857). 



Batrachostomus stietopterus, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. pt. ii. p. 124. 

 no. 370, "Malacca," d (1859-60). 



Batrachostomus stellatus (Gould), Moore, Cat. E.I. C. Mus. i. 

 p. 388, "Malacca" (1854); Sclater, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 212, "ex 

 Malacca;" Salvadori, Ucc. Borneo, p. 113, "Sarawak," S (1874). 



