34"' LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



108.— Batrachostomus hodgsoni, (9r. Prohahli/==B. 

 javensis, Horsf. ( Naga — Soombong.) 



Oa Sunday, April 24th (the better the day, the better the 

 deed), I being too ill to go out, one of the native boys of 

 Aimole, where we were encamped, snared a female Frogmouth 

 on its nest, of which the following are the particulars recorded 

 at the time : — 



Length, 10'3 ; expanse, 16'0 ; tail, 5-5 ; wing, 5-2 ; tarsus, 07 ; 

 bill from gape, 1-2 ; width at gape, ll 1 ; weight, l-61oz. 



Legs and feet dull, rather pale fleshy brown, darkening on 

 the claws and the two terminal joints of the toes ;. bill 

 pinkish or reddish brown, paler on the lower mandible and 

 towards the gape, and darkest on the culmen and tip of 

 upper mandible ; irides yellow. 



The entire upper surface, chin, throat, neck all round 

 and breast is a light bright chestnut, a trifle darker on the 

 interscapulary region, scapulars and lesser and median wing- 

 coverts. 



There is a' somewhat creamy- white stripe on each side from 

 close to the nares, over the lores and eyes, and extending a 

 little beyond the latter, broadest and purest white immediately- 

 over the eyes. These stripes almost meet on the forehead, 

 behind the front row of stiff frontal plumes. 



The shafts of all the chestnut frontal plumes and of a line 

 of feathers above the white eyebrow are black and greatly 

 prolonged, and the prolonged bristle-like portions in some 

 cases, fully 1 % inch in length, are thinly barbed, four to six 

 barbs on each side, with hair-like black barbs. 



The nearly white eyebrow already described is continued 

 as a broad, ill-defined, buffy white band over the ear-coverts 

 to the nape. 



From' near the gape on each side runs a stripe of more 

 or less hidden, creamy-white tipped feathers along the sides 

 of the neck. 



, _ On the lower and middle throat is a large, more or less 

 triangular patch of pure white feathers, fringed at the tips 

 with chestnut and with a dark sienna brown hair line 

 dividing that fringing from the white. 



Very nearly on a level with the lowest row of these feathers, 

 and _ almost continuous with them, is a well-marked row of 

 precisely similar feathers, forming a symmetrical, nuchal 

 demi-collar. 



The neck all round below the throat patch and the nuchal 

 demi-collar unbroken chestnut, but in front of the neck 

 just where this joins the breast, numerous similar feathers 



