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Show 436 THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE ON BATRACHOSTOMUS. [May 15, minated with rufous-brown. Shorter scapulars white-centred towards the end, the white being separated from the rufous edging by a brown mark. Longer scapulars with all the outer webs and a small part of the inner, near the shaft, white, which colour is more or less enclosed by a brown or rufous-brown irregular line, edged with rufous, inner webs rufous. Chin tawny rufous. A patch of feathers commencing at the middle of the throat, and expanding lower down the throat, pure white and rufous-white, each feather being traversed by an ill-defined narrow pale-brown line ; a brown subterminal line fringed with rufous. Many of the concealed pectoral feathers marked in a similar manner, but without the transverse narrow line. Longer pectoral plumes whity brown, edged with a rufous fringe. Back and abdominal feathers paler rufous, centred with white, and with an outer white terminal double or single spot, or with outer webs only white. Ventral region pale tawny-rufous. Quills rufous-brown, outer webs pale rufous, with faint brown marking. Wing-coverts uniform chestnut-colour. Under wing-coverts pale rufous faintly barred with brown. Wing 4.85, tarsus 0*50, middle toes 0*68, bill from forehead 0*87, width of gape 1*12. The tarsus is not feathered much below the knee ; otherwise the structure is normal. In Horsfield's type the dimensions are, wing 5*75, tarsus 0*50, width of gape 1*12, bill from forehead 087. The male has not been described, nor have I succeeded in meeting with an example ; but if Prince Buonaparte had authentic Javan individuals before him, we may infer from the passage above quoted (/. ci) that it possesses the grey and brown mottled plumage of B. cornutus and B. affinis. Indeed, if the specimen in the Calcutta Museum, described by Dr. Jerdon (/. c.) really came from Java, there can be no doubt on the point. Dr. Jerdon even states that this specimen was " barely (if indeed at all) distinguishable from Otothrix hodgsoni." It may even be doubted whether B. affinis can be considered distinct from B. javensis ; but there appears to be a discrepancy in the dimensions, and the white ou the throat in B. affinis seems to be restricted to the gular collar. BATRACHOSTOMUS STELLATUS. (Plate XLVII.) Podargus stellatus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 43, "Java " (?). Batrachostomus javensis (Horsf.), Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1847, p. 1181, partim, nee Horsf. Podargus javanensis, Horsf., Blyth, Cat. Calc. Mus. p. 81, no. 404 partim, "Avis juv. ex Malacca*," nee Horsf. (1848). Batrachostomus javanensis (Horsf.), Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1849, p. 807, nee Horsf. Podargus parvulus, T., Schlegel, Handleid. d. Dierkunde, Atlas, t. ii. f. 15, "Sumatra" (1857). Batrachostomus stictopterus, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. pt. ii. p. 124. no. 370, "Malacca," d (1859-60). Batrachostomus stellatus (Gould), Moore, Cat. E.I. C. M u s i. p. 388, "Malacca" (1854); Sclater, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 212, "ex Malacca;" Salvadori, Ucc. Borneo, p. 113, "Sarawak," d (1874). |