THE BIRDS OF NORTH GACHAR. 553 



atoiit Manipnr, and doubtless it is to be met with, for in North Cacliarj 

 though decidedly rare, I seldom pass a year without seeing it, though 

 during the last two years this has not been the case. It appears to be 

 partially migratory, if not wholly so in these hillsj as from June to 

 November I have never seen it. 



Family Podargidce, 

 Sub-Family Podargince, 

 (459) Batrachastomus hodgsoni. — Hodgson's Frogmouth, 

 Hume, No, 100 ; Cat.^ B. Museum, Vol. X VI, p. 642. 



Hume has given the colours of the soft parts of a female, so I give 

 hare those of the male, noted down from a live bird. Irides pale, 

 bright hazel yellow ; bill dirty horny yellow, lighter below, with the 

 tip and commissure dusky black ; legs pale pinkish, flesh colour ; claws 

 black. Some of the frontal plume shafts are l-^^" long. The bird from 

 which these details were taken was caught whilst incubating two eggs 

 on its nest. 



An almost fully-fledged nestling, one well able to fly, differed 

 a good deal in plumage from the adult bird. The upper plumage 

 was like that of the adult but less bright, with finer and more numerous 

 vermiculations, and the whole tone more truly grey. Below, the beauti- 

 ful pink tinge is quite absent, the colour being a dead white with narrow 

 bars of brown, very numerous on the upper breast, less so consider- 

 ably on the lower breast, abdomen and flanks, though slightly broader 

 on all these parts. 



The whole aspect of the bird gives a grey tone without any tinge 

 of rufous in it. 



Irides brown ; feet dark flesh-colour ; soles slightly paler, and 

 the claws blackish-horny ; bill horny-gTey tinged with pink above 

 and darkest at the base of the culmen ; eyelids livid flesh-colour 

 or livid pink. 



The bill Is covered with the same rough scaly substance as it is in 

 the adult bird, but the long frontal shafts are not developed, and there 

 are practically no signs of them. 



Wing 3-4"; tall 2-2". 



This young bird and the adult male were both knocked over with a 

 stone by a small Naga boy, unfortunately the former being too much 

 torn to allow of its beiug skinned. 



