444 THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE ON BATRACHOSTOMUS. [May 15, 



brown striae, succeeded by a broader brown mark and then a broad 

 white band, tipped with black and margined with fulvous. Elon- 

 gated auriculars tawny at base, traversed by numerous irregular fine 

 pale brown lines and tipped dark brown. Space before the eye buff. 

 A supercilium composed of buif feathers unstriated on outer webs, 

 but lineated with brown on inner. Ear-coverts almost unmarked, 

 pale ferruginous-buff. Shorter scapulars pure white, with several 

 transverse zigzag brown lines, a black tip with a faint fulvous ter- 

 minal dot. Inner webs of longer scapulars with a grey (not a white) 

 ground ; the inner web of others tawny-rufous, all lineated trans- 

 versely with brown. Innermost tertiaries pale grey, with numerous 

 transverse pale brown irregular lines and a terminal black mark. 

 Back like the head. Uropygium brown, with fulvous transverse 

 marks ; no terminal black spots. Upper tail-coverts tawny-rufous, 

 with a dark brown subterminal mark and a pallid tawny terminal 

 dot. Ground-colour of middle pair of rectrices rufo-fulvous, much 

 mottled with brown, towards apex grey, marked with brown and 

 black. No distinct banding. Next pairs with bands more defined. 

 Short outer pair pale ferruginous, with brown markings. Chin and 

 throat pale fulvous, with fine transverse brown lines ; some with 

 broader brown subterminal marks and terminal almost white marks. 

 A gular collar formed by broad pure white terminal bands to the 

 lower throat-plumes, surmounted by a narrow brown intersecting 

 line. The pectoral feathers, below this collar, pale brown, lineated 

 as on the throat, and with faint albescent tips. Lower pectoral 

 plumes pale fulvous, with broad white terminal halves much striated 

 with dark brown. Abdominal plumes of the same character, but 

 less striated and the white confined to the tips, bounded above by a 

 brown line. Under tail-coverts pure pale rusty buflf, with a subter- 

 minal pale brown line. Quills brown, much indented on outer webs 

 with pallid tawny rufous, shading into almost pure white. Some of 

 the inner primaries much mottled at apex, with grey or tawny rufous 

 ground. Under wing-coverts pure tawny-rufous. Wing-coverts 

 dark brown, traversed and tipped with rufous. Great stiff narial 

 plumes black, with tawny specks at base. Wing 4' 90, tail 3"50, 

 tarsus 0'60, middle toe without nail 0'60, bill from forehead 0*80, 

 gape 1*30. 



This bird may represent a phase of Mr. Bourdillou's Travancore 

 species, which is possibly distinct from the true B. moniliyer. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 



Plate XLV. 

 Batrachostomus affinis ? , No. 1, p. 427, from a skin from Malacca. Aftts. nostr. 



Plate XLVI. 



B. cornutus $ , No. 4, p. 434, from a skin collected by A. E. Wallace at 

 Banjarmassing. Mus. nostr. 



Plate XLVII. 



B. stellatns ^ , p. 437, from Mr. Gould's typical specimen. Mus. nostr. 



