464 TIMELIID^. 



the inner ones fulvous-brown like the back ; bastard-wing feathers 

 fulrous-brown, dusky on the inner webs ; primarj'-coverts brown, 

 inclining to blackish at the ends ; quills sepia-brown, externally 

 ashy, barred with black towards the ends, bright bay near the base 

 of the outer web ; inner secondaries ashy olivaceous, narrowly barred 

 across with dusky black ; upper tail-coverts and tail rufescent 

 brown with dusky cross bars under certain lights ; remainder of 

 the feathers fulvous-brown, becoming dusky brown towards the 

 ends, which are tipped with white ; head, which is strongly crested, 

 ashy brown, with slight indications of rufous edges to the feathers ; 

 forehead and sinciput, nasal plumes, lores, feathers round the eye, 

 and fore part of cheeks chestnut-rufous ; ear-coverts and sides of 

 neck ashy brown ; chin chestnut, fading off on the throat into 

 fulvous-brown somewhat washed with ashy, which extends onto 

 the upper breast ; sides of body fulvous-brown ; thighs earthy 

 brown ; centre of body dull white ; under tail-coverts light ful- 

 vous-brown, tipped with white ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 like the sides of the breast, but a little more tawny in tint ; quills 

 dusky brown below, tawny or light chestnut along the inner web ; 

 " bill light horny ; legs pale brown ; iridos brown " (Jerdon). Total 

 length 8 inches, culmen 0'7, wing 3'35, tail 4-5, tarsus 145. 



Yoimff. Differs from the adult in being more rufous and more 

 fluffy in character of plumage ; the whole head is rufous-brown, 

 slightly vinous in cast ; the bars on the wings much more coarsely 

 defined. 



Hub. Himalayas, extending into the hills of N.E. Bengal. 



a. Ad. sk. Himalayas. Zoological Society. (Type 



of species.) 



b. Ad. sk. Himalayas. Gould Collection. 



c. d, e, f. Ad. ; g. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 Juv. sk. 



h, i, h. Ad. sk. Nepal {Hodgsoii). India Museum. 



I. Ad. sk. Sikhim. H. Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



m. Ad. sk. Native Sikhim. Gonld Collection, 



w, 0. Ad. sk. Khasia hills* {Griffith). India Museum. 



2. Actinodura ramsayi. 



Actinura ranisavi, Walden, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hint. (4) xv. p. 402 

 (1875); Hiime, Str. F. 1875, p. 404 ; Walden in Blyth, B. Biirm. 

 p. 108 (1875); Godwin-Austen, Ann. iSj- Mag. N. H. (4) xvi. p. 340 

 (1875) ; Banisag, Ibis, 1877, p. 464, pi. xii. 



Actinodura ramsayi, Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 97. 



Achdt male (Karen-Nee, March 21, 1874; E. G. Wardlaw 

 Ramsay : type of species). General colour above ashy olive-brown, 

 indistinctly barred across with dusky ; lesser and median wing- 

 eoverts like the back and narrowly barred with dusky ; greater 

 series fulvous, the inner ones ashy brown, all distinctly barred 



* These birds are marked as from Afghanistan [1. c.) ; but they are evidently 

 from North-eastern Bengal. 



