440 THE MARCIUIS OF TWEEDDALE ON BATRACHOSTOMUS. [May 15, 



Batrachostomus moniliger, Layard, Walden, J. A. S. B. 1875, 



pt. ii. ex. no. p. 84. 



Batrachostomus punctaius, "R-ame, Vil&nhxAy Ibis, 1877, p. 251, 



ex Ceylon, 



? Batrachostomus moniliger, Layard, Hume, Str. F. iv. p. -376, 

 " Travancore ;" Blanford, t. c. 252. 



Hab. Ceylon, Travancore. 



Judging from Mr. Hume's detailed description {I. c.) of the speci- 

 men of a male obtained by Mr. Bourdillon in Travancore, the range 

 of the Ceylon bird may be safely extended to that district of India. 

 The iris of one of Mr. Bourdillou's specimens is stated to have been 

 bright yellow. 



No. 1, $, almost adult (?). (Pl.XLIX). Rattabown' or Kattabown, 

 Ceylon {mus. nostr.). Bright rufous ; of the same shade on the head 

 and wing-coverts as B. affinis 5, but elsewhere paler. Some stray 

 rufous-brown feathers on the head and shoulders. Recurved frontal 

 plumes tawny rufous. Feathers in front of the eyes tawny rufous, 

 with a distinct brown subterminal transverse line or band and a 

 narrow tawny-rufous terminal fringe. Behind these and passing 

 over the eyes some longer feathers, black-tipped, with outer webs 

 pale tawny- white, inner webs rufous, thus forming a pale supercilium. 

 Long auriculars tipped brown. Four rows of nuchal feathers rufous, 

 with a broad white subterminal band confined between a narrow 

 irregular rufous-brown line above and below, the terminal f-:..ge 

 being rufous. In some of the nuchal plumes tl.'> '":.tiknigs are 

 better-defined than in others, where they become obsolete. The 

 whole presents the appearance of an irregularly formed white collar. 

 Lesser wing-coverts unspotted, greater with bold, ovoid, larger or 

 smaller white spots at their tips, mostly situated on the outer webs, 

 and circumscribed more or less above and on their inner margins by 

 a brown line. The scapulars are pure rufous, tipped by a minute 

 ■white or fulvous spot, margined above with dark brown or black. 

 The tertiaries are pale rufous, much freckled with brown, and having 

 still minuter terminal spots of the same character as those on the 

 scapulars. The primaries and secondaries have their inner webs 

 brown and their outer pale rufous, the brown of the inner webs 

 running through at intervals and forming narrow irregular bars. 

 Many of the quills have minute terminal white spots ; and all but the 

 first have their tips clouded or freckled with rufous. The axillaries 

 are rufous brown. Under wing-coverts pale rufous, with some grey 

 and sandy white feathers. The chin is tawny rufous ; the upper 

 throat bright rufous, with no concealed white-marked plnmes. Sur- 

 rounding the lower throat a series of rufous plumes, broadly tipped 

 with pure white, which is separated from the rufous above by a 

 narrow irregular brown line ; below, the white marks are faintly 

 fringed with pale tawny. This white necklace is followed by the 

 pure rufous of the upper breast, among which are no concealed white- 

 marked feathers. Lower breast- feathers of the same rufous, but 



1 The writing cm the label is most difficult to decipher. 



