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across with black ; bastard-wing feathers and primary-coverts 

 lilack ; quills blackish brown, chequered externally with bright bay 

 barred witli black, the outer primaries barred on the outer web 

 with black and ashy fulvous; innermost secondaries ashy brown 

 barred acrofs with black ; tail-feathers ashy fulvous, narrowlj' barred 

 with du^^ky black, the outer feathers inclining to dusky blackish 

 towards the ends, which are tipi)ed with white ; forehead sandy butf ; 

 the crown and nape pale sandy brown ; sides of crown, lores, sides 

 of face, and ear-coverts ashy brown, blacker on the lores and 

 below the eye ; round the latter a conspicuous ring of white 

 feathers ; cheeks and under surface of body sandy buff, a little 

 more dusky on the flanks, which have indistinct narrow bases of 

 dusky ; thighs and under tail-coverts more olivaceous, the latter 

 ti])])od with white ; axillarics and under wing-coverts fawn-colour ; 

 quills dusky brown below, pale fawn-colour along the inner web ; 

 " bill horny brown ; legs slaty brown ; iris light hair-brown " 

 {R. G. W. 'R.). Total length 9-0 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3-8, 

 tail 5, tarsus 1*1. {Mus. R. O. Wardlatu Ramsat/.) 



Adidt female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 

 8'4 inches, culmen 0"75, wing 3'4, tail 4'7, tarsus l-l. 



Hcd>. Hills of Karen-nee in Burmah at a height of 3500 feet. 

 a. Ad. sk. Karen-nee. Capt. R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay [P.]. 



3. Actinodura waldeni. 



Actinodura waMeni, Godwin-Aust. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 4G; Gould, B. 

 Aiiia, part, xxvii. (1875) ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 97. 



Adtdt (Munipur hills). General colour above rufous-brown, a 

 little clearer rufous on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wing- 

 coverts rufous-brown like the back, the greater series edged with 

 lavender-grey near the tips of the outer webs ; bastard-M'ing 

 feathers dull ashy with a tinge of rufous, and barred across with 

 black; primary-coverts black, forming a conspicuous wing-spot; 

 (piills black, externally rufous, brighter towards the base of the 

 l)rimaries, all barred with black on the outer web, the secondaries 

 dull brown and barred with black right across, the outer primaries 

 edged towards the tips with lavender-grc)' ; tail-feathers black, all 

 but the centre ones tipped with white, bright rufous towards the 

 base barred with black, this coloration much more extended on tlie 

 central rectrices ; hind Tieck dull ashy brown, overspreading the 

 mantle ; crown of head much crested, dusky brown, the feathers 

 ■'dged with ashy whitish; lores and cheeks dusky ash-brown, the 

 latter washed with rufous; ear-coverts hoary grey; entire under 

 surface of l)ody rufous, paler on the throat and chest, which are 

 slightly mottled with dark rufous-brown centres to the feathers: 

 flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts darker and more of a mahogany- 

 brown ; under wing-coverts and axillaries rufous-brown like the 

 breast ; quills dusky brown below, rufous-brown along the inner web. 

 Total length 7-5 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 3-05, tail 3-4, tarsus 1-3. 

 (J/(f.9. }f. Jf. Godicin-Austen.) 



Hall. Munipur, X.E. Bengal, 

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