806 Note to the Catalogue of the Birds [Aug. 



Inhabits Ceylon. 



No. 405. Batrachostomus affinis, nobis, J. A. S. XVI, 1180. 

 In a collection made at Darjiling, among a number of supernumerary- 

 fragments we found the heads, wings, and tails of two specimens of 

 what we now consider to be the young of this species, especially distin- 

 guished from the adult by the slenderness of the bony rami of the 

 lower mandible, as we find to be also the case with the young of B. 

 auritus (No. 403). Each is in nestling garb, though the two are 

 remarkably unlike; one being mainly of a light chesnut hue, with 

 nearly obsolete barred markings, and throwing out deeper chesnut or 

 light bay feathers on the crown and shoulder of the wing ; while the 

 other is profusely mottled throughout with black on a pale ground but 

 faintly tinged with chesnut. I 



B. moniliger, Layard, n. s. A little smaller than B. javanensis, 

 (Horsfield, No. 404), which it greatly resembles at the first glance, but 

 differs considerably in the details of its markings. Colour of the upper- 

 parts, throat and breast, bright bay or rufous-brown ; the latter without 

 spots, except a torque of white spots margined above with black above the 

 breast, and another separating the hue of the breast from that of the 

 abdomen ; belly and lower tail-coverts contrasting pale isabelline, with 

 similar but smaller spots, and a slight dusky mottling over the flanks : 

 coronal feathers long, the occipital tipped with white bordered above 

 with black, forming a white nuchal ring almost or quite continuous with 

 the torque below : over the eye a pale rufescent supercilium ; and the 

 lengthened and erect loral plumes are tipped with black and whitish at 

 the extreme tip : most of the wing-coverts are tipped with a large 

 ovoid pure white spot bordered above with black ; the tertiaries are 

 pale and delicately mottled with dusky, each having also a minute 

 terminal black and white spot ; and the primaries are black having 

 their outer webs broadly margined with the colour of the back ; the 

 scapularies also have small terminal black and white spots, and the 

 uppermost are pale like the tertiaries : tail mottled and obscurely 

 banded, the bands terminating externally in series of whitish spots, 

 successively more developed and distinct on the outer feathers. In 

 form the tail is somewhat peculiar, its lateral halves separating into 

 distinct lobes, whence the closed tail appears furcate. Length about 

 10 in., of wing 4| in., and tail 4} in., its outermost feather 2\ in. less, 



