36 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



But the grey Batrachostomus hodgsoni is also the male of 

 this same species. Of this I have only six specimens ; of these 

 only one sexed by dissection. The wings of these six measure 

 5'4, 55, 63, 54, 525, 5"1, so that the sexei^ are precisely the 

 same size. 



Now Capt. J. Butler obtained a Batrachostomus in the Naga 

 hills just north of Manipur, about which Godwiii^Austea 

 wrote as follows. I quote at full length because the matter 

 is of some importance : — 



" 106. — Batrachostomus javensis, Horsfield ? ? 

 " This specimen belongs to the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 

 where I found it among some skins that had been sent down 

 by the late lamented Captain John Butler from the Naga 

 hills, and I was, by the kind permission of the Trustees, allowed 

 to bring it to England. It is a most interesting specimen 

 in the rufous phase of plumage, but unfortunately the sex is 

 not marked. It agrees with a specimen oiB. javensis ? in 

 the collection of Lord Tweeddale, and the description of the 

 species as given in P. Z. S., 1877, p. 435, and the dimensions 

 do not differ materially. I give a description of the Naga 

 hill bird, interesting as being found so far to the northward. 



"Entire plumage rich chestnut brown, a few white feathers 

 at the base of the upper mandible tipped rufous and barred 

 with black. White on chin and throat, some of the feathers 

 on the latter crossed by a V-shaped dark line, but they only 

 extend to the upper breast, this being covered by feathers 

 having large, rounded white centres, bounded on the terminal 

 margin by a narrow dark line and fringed with chestnut ; to- 

 Avards the abdomen and flanks the white marks become narrow 

 and lengthened. The wing is unspotted, but conspicuous 

 white feathers margined with black are mingled with the 

 scapulars, and there is a well-marked nuchal collar, each 

 feather crossed by a narrow black line edged terminally by 

 another. There is a slight mottling of dull black on the 

 primaries and secondaries and lower back. The tail is simi- 

 larly mottled and crossed by seven pale clear rufous bands ; the 

 outer penultimate tail feather has five distinct white bars on the 

 outer web ; the very short outermost feather has a terminal 

 whitish spot. 



" Wing, 5"25 ; tail, 55 ; tarsus, 0*6 ; bill from gape, 06 ; breadth 

 at gape, r05 ; mid-toe and claw, 0'75. The long frontal plumes ■ 

 are black, rufous at the base. 



" This bird is, I think, nearest to B. javensis, B. ajffinis ap^ 

 parently not having any white in front of the eye. 



" On my submitting this paper and the specimen to Lord 

 Tweeddale he thus wrote to me : ' This Naga hill example 



