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from the Island of Negros. 
78. Batrachostomus sp. inc. 
Head and hind-neck a fine mixture of black and fulvous, 
the feathers terminally barred with broader bands of these 
tints, producing a spotted appearance; an indistinct buff 
band from the forehead over the eye ; elongated auriculars 
fulvous, banded and tipped with black ; nuchal collar banded 
with buff, fulvous, and black; mantle and lower back reddish 
brown, closely vermiculated with black and darker than the 
head; upper tail-coverts similar, but more coarsely ver¬ 
miculated ; scapulars plain cinnamon on the outer webs, 
vermiculated with black on the inner webs, each feather 
with a subapical spot of black; wing-coverts like the back, 
some of the feathers with conspicuous apical spots of white; 
primary-coverts chiefly black ; primaries cinnamon, barred 
with dusky on the outer webs, dusky on the inner webs; 
secondaries cinnamon, irregularly barred and mottled with 
black on the outer webs, dusky in the centre and on the 
inner webs ; tertials cinnamon, vermiculated with black ; 
tail cinnamon-rufous, with transverse bands of a darker 
tint, which are narrowly margined with black ; chin, throat, 
and breast tawny, finely banded with black, the concealed 
portion of the feathers of the upper breast being white 
subterminally and mesially banded with black; feathers of 
the lower breast and abdomen chiefly whitish, margined with 
tawny slightly vermiculated with dusky; thighs and under 
tail-coverts buff. Wing 5-5 inches, tail 4*2, tarsus O'7, 
culmen 1*0. 
The complex coloration of this bird renders it somewhat 
difficult to describe. Perhaps the most striking features 
presented are the conspicuous lateral bands of cinnamon 
formed by the plain outer margins of the scapulars. 
This enigmatical specimen was shot one afternoon in April 
1899, as it rested on a shrub. Mr. Keay tells me that he 
never saw a similar bird in Negros. 
Special interest attaches to this example, because it appears 
to be undescribed. T have refrained, however, from giving it 
a name, because of the possibility that the bird may eventually 
prove to be the undiscovered female of B. menagei of Bourns 
