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Show 430 THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE ON BATRACHOSTOMUS. [May 15, the white of the band not being pure. Back and uropygium dark rufous, traversed by narrow black irregular lines. Upper tail-coverts pale rufous, striated with black or brown. A few scapulars showing indications of the white markings of the adult. The rufous part of all the the quills with distinct, transverse, irregular black lines. Rectrices as in adult; but the paler rufous intervals are round, and do not touch the shafts. Sides of the neck creamy white. No lengthened auriculars. Wing 4*50, tail4*12, bill from forehead 0*81, width of gape 0*88. The example here described seems to be of a nestling female passing over to the intermediate finely striated phase. It is full of blood-feathers. An example, ex Sumatra (Mus. Brit.) is in similar plumage. No. 4, o* (?) adult, Malacca (mus. nostr.). General aspect grey, greyish white, greyish rufous, rufous brown, with awhite nuchal collar, white-marked scapulars, white throat and pectoral plumes. Frontal plumes tawny at their insertion, tipped and marked with brown, a bold buff supercilium, edged above with a series of buff feathers with brown tips and freckles. Crown-feathers greyish, with dark brown tips and small tawny-white marks on the margins of the webs of some. Lengthened auriculars tawny white the greater part of their length, freckled with brown, and tipped dark brown. Occipital crest like the crown-feathers, but tinged with rufous at their extremities, forming with the upper nape-feathers an obscure rufous-tinged collar. A conspicuous nuchal collar formed by a series of feathers which, pale rufous tawny grey at their insertion, are, lower down, traversed by a narrow brown zigzag line, then by a narrow band of pure tawny rufous, which is separated by a second irregular brown transverse line from a broad pure white band, which, in its turn, is bounded by a black terminal border to the feather, in some freckled with tawny. Interscapulars grey, with a rufous tinge, minutely freckled with brown, some with black, terminal small spots. Back the same, but less rufous, and with fewer black terminal dots. Upper tail-coverts rufous, with tawny dots and brown freckles. Some scapulars pure white, with a black terminal spot and a narrow margin (in parts) of black; near insertion a few zigzag pale brown markings. Several other scapulars with inner webs grey, freckled with brown, outer webs being pure white, narrowly bordered with dark brown, and having terminal black spots. Other scapulars pure white traversed sparsely with fine irregular greyish brown lines. Minor and major wing-coverts brown, with rusty margins and having a mottled rusty and brown aspect. Many of the major coverts with pure white terminal spots. White and tawny minute terminal spots on many of the other wing-coverts. Tertiaries brown, minutely freckled with pale grey wavy fine lines, tinged with tawny rufous in places. Some with white or greyish white terminal spots. Primaries with the inner webs pale brown ; outer brown, marked with rusty and indented with white or tawny white. Tips of primaries (1st and 2nd excepted) mottled with tawny rust-colour. Axillaries grey, tipped pure white. Under wing-coverts creamy white, mingled here and there with brown. |