466 TiMEu:i).E. 



4. Actinodura nipalensis. 



Cinclosonia nipalensis, HofJi/s. Asiat. Eesearch. xix. p. 145 (18.30). 

 Ixops nipalensis, Modf/s. Icon. vied, hi Brit. Mus., t'asseres, pi. 201 



(no. 257) ; id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 84 (1844). 

 Actinodui-a nipalensis, Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 22() (1846) ; id. Cat. 



Mamm. etc. JS'epal pres. Hodqs. p. 84 (1846) ; Bh/th, Cat. B. Mns. 



As. Soc. p. 98 (1849) ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B.E.I. Co. Mus. i. 



p. 212 (1854); Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 53 (18G3); Gould, B. Asia, 



part xviii. (1866) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 283, no. 4195 (1869) ; 



Jerd. Bn's, 1872, p. 308 ;* Godiuin-Austen, Ann. ^- May. Nat. Hist. 



(4) xvi. p. 340 (1875) ; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 97. 



Adult. General colour above reddish brown, the head, neck, and 

 mantle more chocolate-brown than the back, the feathers mesially 

 streaked with whity brown ; rump and upper tail-coverts more 

 rufous than the back, the latter with indistinct dusky cross bars : 

 wing-coverts like the back, but the central streaks obsolete, the 

 greater series washed with grey at the tips ; bastard-wing feathers 

 grey, barred and tipped with black; primary-coverts black; quills 

 blackish brown, externally bright rulous, chequered by narrow 

 cross bars of black, the primaries narrowly edged with grey towards 

 the tips ; the inner secondaries fulvous-brown, inclining to ashy at 

 the ends and regularly barred across with black ; tail-feathers black, 

 barred with rufous and black near the base, and tipped with white, 

 the latter increasing as the rufous base diminishes in extent towards 

 the outer feathers ; lores like the crown and streaked with white in 

 the same manner : ear-coverts dark ashy brown ; cheeks black ; 

 under surface of body pale ashy brown, rather fulvescent on the 

 throat, the lower flanks and thighs more fulvescent, deepening to 

 tawny on the under tail-coverts ; axillaiies ashy fulvous ; under 

 wing-coverts light rufous, the edge of the wing whitish ; quills 

 blackish below, rufescent along the inner web ; " bill dusky horny ; 

 legs pale fleshy brown ; irides brown " (Jerclon). Total length 

 7"5 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 3-6, tail 3-7, tarsus 1-25. 



Young. Diiicrs from the adult in being much paler brown and 

 more rufescent on the head, where the white streaks are broader 

 and more plainly marked; ear-coverts light vinous brown ; cheek- 

 stripe Ijrown ; l)arring on the wings coarse as in the old bird ; and 

 the under surface light ashy. 



JIab. Eastern Himalayas, extending into the liills of North-eastern 

 Eengal. 



a, h. Ad. sk. Himalayas. Gould Collection. 



c, d. Ad. St. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Types of .species.) 



e, f. Ad.; fj. Juv. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



sk. 



h. Ad. ; i. Juv. sk. Nepal (Hodr/so}i). India Museum. 



k. Ad. sk. Darjiling {Pearson). India Museum. 



/. Ad. sk. Parjiling. Gould Collection. 



?«, «. Ad. sk. Darjiling. II. Seebohni; E.-q. [P.]. 



