1877.] THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE ON BATRACHOSTOMUS. 439 



and^mottled with dark rufous. Wing 5-0, tail 5-25, width of gape 



A Bornean (Bedi) example marked d by Mr. Everett (mu, 

 nosjr.) . n. the rufous-bay plumage, aad is noListinguLTab l fTom 

 Malaccau individuals (mus. nostr.). If the sex was "orrectly asce^ 

 tained it would appear that both sexes wear similar plumage Win<. 

 4-9(), tail 5-0, width of gape i'37. ^ ° 



In B stellatus the auricular plumes are much less developed than 

 in any ot the other species. The front of the tarsus for about a 

 quarter of its length is feathered. The bill is large and mass ve 

 and the gradation of the remiges and rectrices is normal. 



Batrachostomus auritus. 



Po^«;^«. az,,.^Y„,, Vigors (Griffith), Tr. Cuv. Au. Kingd. ii. p. 

 iatra" (isfo).' ^^'"' ^^^ ^'"- ^" ^' ^'^''' ?' ''^' " ^U" 



t frlfi'^trtr '''"p'y i^iiT-^' ^''"'^' ^'- A^- pt- "• p- 13, 



t. / (18J8); Sharpe, P. Z. H. 1875, p. 99. r r > 



^o,«5^a.^o«„,./«//,,^o,,V, Hay, J. A. S. B. 1841, p. 573, wood- 

 cut, ouniatra, 



Podarffus,,^ - Blyth, J A. S. B. 1842, p. IOC, "Malacca." 



Podaryus/uUertom, Hay (?). Blyth, t. c. p. 798, "Malacca." 



Hab. Sumatra, Malacca, Borneo. 



The Malaccan bird has still to be compared with the typical 

 Sumatran form. I have compared the Bornean example with the 

 Malaccan, and can discern no distinction. 



The species is too well known to require description 

 half its*?en"!h' """ ^^^^"^^'^^ anteriorly in both sexes for more than 



Batrachostomus, sp. n. 



An example in rufous-brown mottled and striated plumage of an 

 undescribed species oi Batrachostomus was obtained in Mindanao by 

 the Challenger expedition. It is labelled a female, and will hi 

 described in my torthcoming report on the Philippine birds collected 

 of its le^'th ^^''"' '' feathered anteriorly for a quarter 



Batrachostomus moniliger. (Plates XLVIII., XLIX.) 



Batrachostomus jnoniliger, Layard, Blyth, J. A S B 1840 

 p. 806, 2, "Ceylon." • • . lo^y, 



? Podargus javanensis, Horsf. Jerdon, Madr. J. L. Sc. nee Horsf 



i Batrachostomus moniliger, Blyth, Jerdou, B. India, i. n 189* 



"Southern India" (1862). 1 • 'oy, 



Batrachostomus^ moniliger, Blyth, Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, 



Batrachostomus punctatus, Hume, Str. F. 1874, p 354 ^ f 

 "Ceylon;" op, cit. 1876, p. 377. 



