118 JOURNAL, BOMB A Y NA TUBAL HISTOR Y SOCIETY, Vol. XI J. 



(Grant.)— (Eippon's Bar-wing). 



® (21 1&) ACTINODURA RIPPONI 



"Ibis," 1907, p. 186. 



Kachln name — Pong p rap. 

 E'jertuni — Gould. 



Forehencl. — 



Dark chestnnt, extend- 

 ing on to crown. 



khasiani — (G. A.) 



Rufous, not extending 

 beyond eye. 



Crown. — 

 Dark ash-grey. 

 Back. — 

 Reddish olive. 

 Middle tail-feath<'r.<'. — 

 Dark bars, usually 



very faint. 

 Di trihufion. — 

 Nepal, Sikkim, Dafla 



Hills, Shengorh 



Peak. 



Light ash-grey. 

 Ochraceous, 



Dark bars, 

 distinct. 



usually 



Rippom — Grant. 



Rufous, usually not 



extending beyond 

 eye. 



Dark ash-grey. 

 Greyish olive. 



Dark bars, usually 

 distinct. 



Mt. Victoria, 

 Hills. 



Chin 



Shillong, Naga and 

 Khasia Hills, Muni- 

 pur. 



These three forms may be easily separated by the colour of their back. 



My specimens agree nearest with A. rippnni, although they are geogra- 

 phically the furthest away from that species. One specimen, of which I have 

 got the eggs, running very near A. khasiani. 



Nenting.—l found a nest of this bird building and saw both birds, but return- 

 ing when I expected to find eggs I found something had been before me. The 

 nest was placed in a small sapling in rather a conspicuous position, and as far 

 as I could see was composed ohiefly of moss. My Burman collector was, how- 

 ever, more fortunate, in getting two nests at the end of April with the parent 

 birds, each nest containing two incubated eggs. Both were placed in 

 bamboos and were deep cups having a mossy foundation and composed of 

 bamboo leaves and roots, lined with fine gi-ass, and measured 4"x5" outside, 

 and 2^" x 2|" (deep ) inside. 



Eggs. — Are very handsome, being a bright blue, spotted and marked with 

 lines of brown, and have indistinct underlying purplish markings ; and measure 

 •9x-66. 



* 217. Staphidia rupigenis, (Hume). — (Hume's Staphidia) 



One specimen. 



* (222a) Siva wingatei, (Grant.)— (Wingate's Siva.) 

 BuU. B. O. C, Vol. X, p. 38. 



"Ibis," 1900, p. 593. 



Kach!nH2me — Ching-Tong wu-lee same as J. fratercula. 



" Adult male — Closely allied to both S. cyauuroptera, Hodgs. and S. sordida, 

 Hume. It resembles both in general colour of the upper parts, the grey of 

 the head and back .shading into olive-brown on the back and fulvous on the 

 rump and upper tail-feathers. It further resembles S. cyanuroptera, and 



