34. RIMATOK. 595 



(1847) ; id. Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. xix. p. 352 (1847) ; Bp. Consp. 

 i. p. 225 (1850) ; Graxj, Hand-l. B. i. p. 184, no. 2518 (1869). 

 Merva jerdoni, Hodgs. Calc. J&urn. Nat. Hist. 1847, p. 96. 



Adult. General colour above brown, the feathers mesially streaked 

 with whity-brown shaft-streaks ; the mantle and back blacker, the 

 feathers brown on the outer web, black on the inner one ; lesser 

 and median coverts brown, with narrow pale shaft-lines; greater 

 coverts brown, externally washed with rufous ; bastard wiug and 

 primary-coverts dusky brown, externally edged with lighter brown ; 

 quills dusky, externally brown, the innermost secondaries entirely 

 brown with pale shaft-streaks ; upper tail-coverts reddish brown 

 with pale shaft-lines ; tail-feathers dusky brown, washed with 

 reddish brown externally; crown of the head like the back and 

 streaked in the same manner ; lores reddish buff, with dusky tips 

 to the feathers ; feathers round the eye and ear-coverts reddish 

 brown, with a few pale shaft-lines on the upper edge of the latter ; 

 cheeks light fulvous, separated from the ear-covcrts by a distinct line 

 of black ; sides of neck like the mantle ; throat pale fulvous-brown 

 mottled with light centres ; remainder of the under surface streaked, 

 the feathers ashy fulvous or white along the shafts, with dusky 

 bases and margins to the breast-feathers ; sides of the body deep 

 fulvous-brown, wdth whity-brown shaft-streaks ; thighs tawny 

 brown ; under tail-coverts deep tawny buff with paler shaft- lines ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries pale tawny buff, with a little 

 blackish patch on the lower wiug-coverts ; quills below dusky brown, 

 more ashy along the inner web ; " bill dark horny, fleshy at the 

 base ; legs brownish red ; irides light brown " (Jerdon). Total 

 length 4-25 inches, culmen 1-05, wing 2*2, tail 1-05, tarsus 0-9. 



Hah. Eastern Himalayas. 



a. Ad. sk. DarjUing. — Grace, Esq. (Type of 



CaulodroniKS gracei.') 

 h, c, d. Ad. sk. Darjiling. H. Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



e,f, g. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



k. Ad. sk. Nnpal (Hodgson). India Museum. 



2. Rimator albostriatus. 



Rimator albostriatus, Salvad. Ann. Mas. Civic. Genov. xiv. p. 224 



(1879). 



Above dusky brown, below paler ; the feathers of the back, breast, 

 and abdomen with a median white shaft-streak ; the rump uniform ; 

 throat white, margined with two Hues on each side, the intervening 

 space being greyish ; wings and tail dusky ; bill dusky horn-colour, 

 feet dusky, iris brownish chestnut. Total length 5-7 inches, wing 

 2-65, tail" 1-3, tarsus 1-2. (Salvad.) 



Hah. Sumatra. 



2ft 2 



