1918. ] H. C. Rosinson & C. B. Ktioss: Birds. IgI 
Measurements in the flesh; Total length, 110; wing, 57; 
tail 36; tarsus, 23; bill from gape 19 mm. Range of eight adult 
males; total length, ro8-120; wing, 55-58; tail, 36-40; bill 
from gape, I7-I1g; tarsus 22.5-27 mm.; range of six Javan 
specimens (measured in the flesh) total length, 116-125 ; wing, 
52-59; tail, 31-35 mm.; bill from gape, 19.5-21; tarsus 21-24 mm. 
Adult male: ‘iris carmine, bill upper mandible black, lower 
slate, feet dirty fleshy, toes lighter.” 
Immature: “iris brown, bill black, yellow beneath and at 
gape, feet brown.” 
A creeping, skulking, ground bird, dodging about under 
fallen timber and among dead leaves and debris on the ground 
exactly like Pnoepyga lepida. Consequently very hard to_ 
observe and to obtain in an undamaged state. 
The immature specimens are very different from the 
adults, being almost uniform dull rufous brown beneath with 
hardly any indications of the white shaft stripes. The throat 
is uniform with the undersurface, not white surrounded by 
black-tipped feathers and the long white supercilium is only 
represented by a short buffy patch behind the eye. The 
tips to the wing coverts are rufous buff, not white, or white, 
tinged with buff. 
This very distinct ground babbler is a bird of extreme 
rarity which does not appear to have been obtained by recent 
collectors since Beccari secured a single specimen on Mt. 
Singgalang. It is very distinct from the Malayan Turdinulus, 
T. granti, Richmond, (syn. T. hwmet, Hartert), and in charac- 
ters is intermediate between Turdinulus Hume (sensu stricto), 
and Corythocichla, Sharpe. 
118. Rimator albostriatus, Salvad. 
Rimator albostriatus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xiv, 
p- 224 (1879); Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. vil, p. 595 (1883); 
Vorderman, Nat. Tijd. Nederl. Ind. xlix, p. 494, no. 303 
(1889). 
a,b. 18,1%. Sungei Kumbang, Korinchi, Sumatra, 
4,000 feet. rgthApril,rg14. [Nos.1025-6.] 
Male: ‘iris chestnut, bill dark greenish slate, paler at tip, 
feet brown, tinged with purple.” 
Female: “iris chestnut, bill black, feet pale brown.” 
These birds were shot by one of our Dyaks, running on a 
tall tree trunk in heavy jungle; we were never able to obtain 
any more specimens, though several men were assiduously 
searching for it, so the species must be very rare. The type, 
obtained by Beccari in 1879, appears to have remained unique, 
until the advent of the present specimens. 
The female, which seems fully adult, agrees exactly with 
the original diagnosis of the type, which was a male; our male 
appears to be a slightly younger bird, has the white shaft 
Part Il: Vertebrata. 
