Grant’s measurements of the three specimens described above, reduced to millimeters, are as follows: Male and female from Lepanto: Wing, 127 to 132; tail, 99 to 102; tarsus, 17 to 18; length of culmen, 19; width at gape, 29. Male from Cape Engaño: Wing, 131; tail, 104; tarsus, 18; length of culmen, 22; width of gape, 32.

In a female from Irisan, Benguet Province, the iris was pale yellowish; bill light horn-brown, basal half of cutting edge dull pea-green; inside of mouth brighter pea-green; legs and nails dirty white; edge of eyelids brown. Wing, 132; tail, 104; culmen from base, 20; width of bill at gape, 30; tarsus, 17.

262. BATRACHOSTOMUS MENAGEI Bourns and Worcester.
MENAGE’S FROGMOUTH.

Cow-cow, Negros.

Negros (Keay); Panay (Bourns & Worcester).

“Adult male.—Top of head rich dark-brown, slightly washed with black; feathers of forehead buff, tipped with fulvous brown, forming a distinct buff stripe reaching back to the eye; feathers of crown lighter fulvous with spots of rufous-brown on the edges, each spot being surrounded with black; some of the feathers tipped with rufous, and having black subterminal bands; occiput and nape with less black; elongated auriculars tawny-buff, with black spots and bars, the tips being black; sides of face tawny-buff streaked with black, lighter below; a distinct buffy white nuchal collar formed by white subterminal bars on feathers of neck, the bases of which are dark buff thickly vermiculated with black; their tips are black, and a black band intervenes between the white subterminal band and the buffy bases of the feathers; feathers of back dark brown, thickly vermiculated with black; feathers of rump fulvous-brown, spotted with black and reddish brown toward their tips, these colors assuming the form of irregular bands on upper tail-coverts; a few of the shorter scapulars almost black with irregular bars of dark rufous-brown; outer webs of longer scapulars light buff, the two outermost feathers entirely of this color; the next scapulars have inner webs thickly vermiculated with black; inner and longest scapulars have both webs marked in this manner, their inner webs being the darker; last of the longer scapulars with an irregular terminal spot of black; lesser wing-coverts nearly black, tipped with chocolate-brown; bases of primary-coverts fulvous brown, their outer webs heavily spotted with rufous-brown, inner webs less so, and a subterminal bar of black crossing entire outer web and half of inner web, all the feathers tipped with prominent spots of creamy white; secondary-coverts like primary-coverts but the black bar and white spot confined to outer web; primaries fulvous-brown when held toward light, changing to smoky brown when held away from light; outer webs spotted with buffy white throughout their entire length, the spots being much lighter on the second and third primaries; tips of feathers mottled with rufous-brown; general color of secondaries same as primaries, their outer webs and tips being spotted with rufous-brown and these spots in turn being speckled with fulvous-brown; inner three secondaries speckled with fulvous-brown, rufous-brown, and creamy white, each feather with a terminal spot of fulvous; general color of tail rufous-brown, distinctly barred with lighter rufous-brown, each of these bars succeeded by a narrow irregular bar of black, the entire feather thickly speckled with black and each feather having a small black terminal spot; throat and fore breast like sides of face; a buffy white pectoral band continuous with nuchal collar and succeeded by a second creamy white band, the feathers between the two bands being brown, thickly vermiculated with black and creamy white; abdomen lighter; flanks and under tail-coverts ashy, slightly tinged with pinkish, some of the feathers with dark black shaft-stripes, others with small terminal spots of black; under surface of tail much like coverts, the black markings of upper surface showing only faintly; shafts of tail-feathers creamy white; under wing-coverts fulvous-brown, tipped with white; axillars white. Eyes pale yellow; legs, feet, and nails nearly white; upper mandible brown, lower dirty green. Culmen, 27; wing, 139; tail, 105; tarsus, 15.

“Food, beetles. Native name ‘cow-cow.’ The single specimen obtained is a fully adult male; its rich and complicated markings are very difficult to describe. We have named it in honor of Mr. Menage.” (Bourns and Worcester.)

Female.—“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 vermiculated; 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 center and on the inner webs; tertials cinnamon, vermiculated with black; tail cinnamon-rufous, with transverse bands of a dark tint, which are narrowly margined with black; chin, throat, and breast tawny, finely banded with black, the concealed portions 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, 140; tail, 106; tarsus, 18; culmen, 25.” (Clarke.)