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Show 444 THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE ON BATRACHOSTOMUS. [May 15, brown striae, succeeded by a broader brown mark and then a broad white band, tipped with black and margined with fulvous. Elongated auriculars tawny at base, traversed by numerous irregular fine pale brown lines and tipped dark brown. Space before the eye buff. A supercilium composed of buff feathers unstriated on outer webs, but lineated with brown on inner. Ear-coverts almost unmarked, pale ferruginous-buff. Shorter scapulars pure white, with several transverse zigzag brown lines, a black tip with a faint fulvous terminal dot. Inner webs of longer scapulars with a grey (not a white) ground ; the inner web of others tawny-rufous, all lineated transversely with brown. Innermost tertiaries pale grey, with numerous transverse pale brown irregular lines and a terminal black mark. Back like the head. Uropygium brown, with fulvous transverse marks ; no terminal black spots. Upper tail-coverts tawny-rufous, with a dark brown subterminal mark and a pallid tawny terminal dot. Ground-colour of middle pair of rectrices rufo-fulvous, much mottled with brown, towards apex grey, marked with brown and black. No distinct banding. Next pairs with bands more defined. Short outer pair pale ferruginous, with brown markings. Chin and throat pale fulvous, with fine transverse brown lines ; some with broader brown subterminal marks and terminal almost white marks. A gular collar formed by broad pure white terminal bauds to the lower throat-plumes, surmounted by a narrow brown intersecting line. The pectoral feathers, below this collar, pale brown, lineated as on the throat, and with faint albescent tips. Lower pectoral plumes pale fulvous, with broad white terminal halves much striated with dark brown. Abdominal plumes of the same character, but less striated and the white confined to the tips, bounded above by a brown line. Under tail-coverts pure pale rusty buff, with a subterminal pale brown line. Quills brown, much indented on outer webs with pallid tawny rufous, shading into almost pure white. Some of the inner primaries much mottled at apex, with grey or tawny rufous ground. Under wing-coverts pure tawny-rufous. Wing-coverts dark brown, traversed and tipped with rufous. Great stiff narial plumes black, with tawny specks at base. Wing 4-90, tail 3*50, tarsus 060, middle toe without nail 0*60, bill from forehead 0*80, gape 1*30. This bird may represent a phase of Mr. Bourdillon's Travancore species, which is possibly distinct from the true B. moniliger. EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. PLATE XLV. Batrachostomus affinis ? , No. 1, p. 427, from a skin from Malacca. Mus. nostr. PLATE XLVI. B. cornutus $, No. 4, p. 434, from a skin collected by A. E. Wallace at Banjarmassing. Mus. nostr. P L A T E XLVII. B. stellatus 2, P- 437, from Mr. Gould's typical specimen. Mus. nostr. |