228 TIMELIID^. 



The Sumatran specimen appears to be smaller ; but not being adult, 

 it cannot be compared with full-plumaged 0. sepium. 

 Huh. Java, Madura, Sumatra, and Lombock. 



a,h. r d 2 1 ad. sk. Java. Gould Collection. 



c. 6 ad. sk. W. Java. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



<?;«•[ c? ];/•[? ] W. Java {E. C. Bux- F. Nicholson, Esq. [P.]. 



ad. sk. ton). 



g,h. c? 2 ad. sk. E. Java. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



i. [(5 juv.]sk. Java. Purchased. 



k. Ad.sk. 3a,\a (Dr. Horsjield). India Museum. (Type of 



species.) 



/. Ad. sk. Sumatra. M. Verreaux. 



m. 2 ad. sk. Lombock. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



10. Orthotomus erythropterus. 



Drymoica erythroptera, Jard. Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 15, Y>l.;Grai/, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 199, no. 2787 (1809). 

 Drymceca erythroptera, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 55 (1857) ; Sharpe, 



Ibis, 1870, p. 475; id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 31 (1871). 

 DrymcEca iodoptera,, Heugl. J. f. O. 1864, p. 268 ; id. Ibis, 1869, 



p. 93. 

 Drymoica iodoptera, Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 199, no. 2774 (1869). 

 Cisticola iodoptera, Heuc/l. Ibis, 1869, p. 143; id. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. 



p. 247 (1869). 

 Cisticola erythroptera, Hevgl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 248 (1869). 

 Cisticola rhodoptera, Shelley, Ibis, 1880, p. 383 ; id. P. Z. S. 1881, 



p. 572. 

 Drymceca pyrrhoptera, Eeichen. J.f. O. 1882, p. 210. 



Adult. Above vinous grey, with a slight tinge of rufous, the 

 lower rump straw-yeUow ; upper tail-coverts brick-red ; scapulars 

 grey like the back ; wing-coverts bright brick-red ; the quills sepia- 

 brown, the innermost secondaries paler brown, all the other quills 

 externally edged with bright brick-red for about two thirds of their 

 length ; tail-feathers sepia-brown, with numerous dusky bars under 

 certain lights, the middle feathers washed, the remainder edged, with 

 rufous, aU of them tipped with white, before which is a distinct 

 Bubterminal bar of black ; lores, feathers round the eye, and ear- 

 coverts grey ; cheeks and throat white, rest of the under surface 

 bright straw-buff, deeper on the sides of the body, thighs, and 

 under tail-coverts ; centre of breast and abdomen whitish ; under 

 wing-coverts buff, the edge of the wings whitish ; lower surface of 

 the quills ashy brown, edged with rufous along the inner web ; bill 

 black ; feet yellowish (in skin). Total length 5-2 inches, culmen 

 0-6, wing 2-1, tail 2-15, tarsus 0-8. 



Ohs. The remains of rufous on the upper surface are probably 

 either indications of young or of winter plumage, as one of the three 

 specimens examined seems to be moulting from a rufous to a perfectly 

 grey back. A female in Captain Shelley's collection, shot by 

 him at Accra on the 15th of February, 1 872, seems to be in full 

 winter dress, being in the vinous stage, nearly uniform above, with 

 the lores and ear-coverts grey. One feature about this bird is the 



