BATBACHOSTOMUS MONILIGER. 



(THE CEYLONESE FROG-MOUTH.) 



Batrachostomus moniliger (Layard), Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1849, xviii. p. 806, ?; Kelaart, Pro- 

 dromus, Cat. p. 117 (1852) ; Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1853, xii. p. 165 ; Jerdon, 

 B. of Ind. i. p. 189 (1862) ; Nevill, J. A. S. B. (Ceylon B.) 1870-71, p. 33 ; Holdsworth, 

 P. Z. S. 1872, p. 420; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 12; id. Str. Feath. 1875, p. 198; 

 Walden, J. A. S. B. 1875, pt. ii. Extr. No. p. 84; Hume, Str. Feath. 1876, p. 376; 

 Tweeddale, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 439, pis. 48 & 49, et Ibis, 1877, p. 391 ; Hume, Ibis, 1878, 

 p. 122. 



1 Podargus javanensis (Horsf.), Jerdon, Madr. J. L. Sc. (nee Horsf.). 



Batrachostoimis punctatus, Hume, Str. Feath. 1874, p. 354; Blanford, Ibis, 1877, p. 251 ; 

 Tweeddale, Ibis, 1877, p. 391 ; Hume, Ibis, 1878, p. 122. 



The Ceylon Oil-bird, Kelaart ; The Wynaad Frog-mouth of Jerdon. 



Ceylon. 



Width 



Collection. Length. 



in. 



(1) 2 . Brit. Mus. (Whyte) 9-4 (from skin) 



(2) 6- „ „ ( „ ) 8-9 ( „ „ ) 



(3) tf. Legge 9-1 



(4) 2 ■ » 9-0 (from skin) 



(5) Juv. d ?■ Legge 



(6) 2 ■ Lord Tweeddale (not recorded) 



(7) 2 ?. „ „ ( „ „ ) 



(3) 6- „ „ ..(Nevill) . ( „ „ ) 



(9) 6. „ „ ( „ „ ) 



(10) d\ Hume (type of B . punctatus) . 7"75 (from skin) 



(11) 2?- Layard (Poole Collection) .. 



(12) 2 • Hume (Bourdillon) 



(13) 6. „ ( „ ) 



9-0 

 9-0 











Claw 



of bill 



Bin 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Tarsus. 



Middle toe. 



(straight). 



at gape. 



to gape. 



in. 



in. 



in. 



in. 



in. 



in. 



in. 



5-0 



4-7 



0-5 



0-6 



0-25 



1-3 



1-35 



4-6 



4-5 



0-6 



0-6 



0-25 



1-3 



1-3 



4-6 



4-2 



0-5 



0-6 



0-2 



1-4 



1-4 



mutilated 



4-85 



0-56 



0-6 



0-21 



1-4 



1-45 



4-8 



mutilated 



0-55 



0-6 



0-2 



1-3 



1-4 



4-5 



4-5 



0-5 



0-63 (with 



claw) . . 



1-25 





4-5 



4-4 



0-6 



0-65 ( „ 



,-,)■■ 



1-25 





4-68 



4-5 



0-5 



0-75 ( „ 



„ ) •■ 



1-2 





4-75 



4-75 



0-5 



0-7 ( „ 



., ) ■■ 



1-2 





) 4-3 



4-0 



0-5 



0-75 ( „ 



., ) -■ 



1-2 



1-3 



4-65 



4-5 



0-6 







1-2 



1-4 



Tbavancore. 















4-75 



4-0 



0-6 







1-37 



1-35 



4-75 



4-5 



0-59 







1-4 



1-4 



Iris yellow ; bill olive-brown or greenish brown, the under mandible paler than the upper ; lower part of tarsus and 

 feet fleshy grey, darkest on the toes ; claws dark brown, inside of mouth dull greenish. 



Male, nearly adult (Galle). General aspect above brown, mingled with rufous and grey, the head and upper part of 

 hind ueck being the darkest and the wing-coverts the most rufous portions. Most of the feathers of the head, hind 

 neck, and back with a terminal spot of black ; the extreme tips of the head and neck-feathers rufous, and the spots 

 bordered above by the same, while the rest of the web is mottled with fulvous aud whitish ; superciliary feathers 

 creamy white, tipped with black : feathers across the lower part of the hind neck much mottled with pale fulvous, 

 imparting the appearance of a lightish band ; on the back and rump the ground-colour is chiefly rufous and the 

 mottlings black ; the upper tail-coverts with an angular white terminal spot ; outer webs of the longer lateral 

 scapulars and the entire portion of the external shorter feathers dull white, mottled with blackish ; wing-coverts 

 boldly marked with black, and the innermost secondary wing-coverts with terminal white feathers on the outer 

 webs : primary wing-coverts blackish brown, mottled with rufous ; primaries and secondaries deep neutral brown, 



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