BATRACHOSTOMUS MONILIGER. 
(THE CEYLONESE FROG-MOUTH.) 
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Batrachostomus moniliger (Layard), Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1849, xviii. p. 806, 9; Kelaart, Pio- 
dromus, Cat. p. 117 (1852) ; Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1858, 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. (nec Horsf.). 
Batrachostomus punctatus, Hume, Str. Feath. 1874, p. o54; Blanford, Ibis, 18/7, p. 251 , 
Tweeddale, Ibis, 1877, p. 391 ; Hume, Ibis, 1878, p. 122. 
The Ceylon Oil-bird, Kelaart ; The Wynaad Frog-mouth of Jerdon. 
Collection. Length. 
in. 
Brit. Mus. (Whyte) 9-4 (from skin) 
„ » ( » ) 8-9 ( „ „ ) 
Legge . . 
t 9-0 (from skin) 
• d ?• Legge 
Lord Tweeddale (not recorded) 
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„ „ ..(Nevill) . ( „ „ ) 
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Hume (type of B. punctatus ) . 7‘75 (from skin) 
Layard (Poole Collection) 
Hume (Bourdillon) 
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9-0 
9-0 
Ceylon. 
Width 
Bill 
Claw 
of bill 
Wing. 
Tail. Tarsus. 
Middle toe. 
(straight). 
at gape. 
to gape. 
in. 
5-0 
in. 
4-7 
in. 
0-5 
in. 
0-6 
in. 
0-25 
in. 
1-3 
in. 
1-35 
4-6 
4-5 
0-6 
0-6 
0-25 
1-3 
1*3 
4-6 
4-2 
0-5 
06 
0-2 
1-4 
1-4 
mutilated 
4-85 
0-56 
06 
0-21 
1-4 
1-45 
4-8 mutilated 
0-55 
06 
02 
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 
1-3 
l 4-3 
4-0 
0-5 
075 ( „ 
» ) •• 
1-2 
4-65 
4 - 5 
0-6 
1-2 
1-4 
Travancore. 
4-75 
4-0 
0-6 
1-37 
1-35 
1-4 
4-75 
4-5 
0-59 
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 neck bein" 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 and 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 
boldlv 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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