OCR Text |
Show 426 THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE ON BATRACHOSTOMUS. [May 15, 5. 2 • Major; scapulars with large terminal black spots, tipped white; white gular and pectoral plumes rudimentary ; feathers of the head mostly tipped fulvous; )>• B. auritus. gape 2*25 d . Above and below tinged grey; scapulars tawny grey, finely striated with brown ; gape 2*25 Sumatra, Malacca, Borneo. 6. 2 • Minor ; scapulars without black and white terminal spots ; gape 1*37 d. Unknown Mindanao. 7- 2 J I B. sp. nov. Scapulars with a minute terminal black dot, tipped white ; gape 1*25 ! „ o*. Scapulars white and rufous > white, minutely striated with brown ; gape 1*25.. Ceylon. Females, at least in some species, seem to betray immaturity by having their rufous plumage traversed by dark irregular striae and by the white markings of the adult being ill-defined and not pure in colour; males by having the white nuchal and gular collar-plumes indistinct, undeveloped, and sullied by tawny. Some importance has been attached to the fact that in occasional examples of the genus the maxilla is found to overlap the mandibula. But this appearance seems to be owing to the imperfect preparation of the skin. BATRACHOSTOMUS AFFINIS. (Plate XLV.) Podargus stellatus, Gould, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1845, p. 209. Batrachostomus affinis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1847, p. 1180, " M a lacca ;" Blyth, op. cit. 1849, p. 806, juv. ; t. c. p. 807, adult. Podargus affinis, Blyth, Cat. Calc. Mus. p. 81. n. 405 (1849). Batrachostomus parvulus (Temm.), Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 57 (1850), $. Podargus parvulus, Schlegel, J. fiir O. 1856, p. 460, "Borneo, Malacca;" Handleiding d. Dierk. i. p. 224, "Borneo, Malacca" (1857). Otothrix hodgsoni, G. R. Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 101, t. clii. ( $ ?). Otothrix hodgsoni, G. R. Gray, Jerdon, B. India, i. p. 190 (1862). Podargus javanensis, Horsf., Tickell, Indian Ornithology, vii. n. 8 nee Horsf. Batrachostomus moniliger, Blyth, Tickell, op. cit. t. 1, " near Toung-ngoo, Burma," nee Blyth. |