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5. Actinodura daflaensis. 



Actiuiira daflaensis, Godwin-Austen, Ann. ^- Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xvi. 



p. 839 (1870) ; id. J. A. S. Banff, xlvi. part 2, p. 77, pi. iv. (1870) ; 



Jfiime, 8fr. F. 1870, p. 219, 

 Aclinodura daflaensi8, Ilume, Str. F. 1879, p. 97. 



Adult female (Da?ia \\\\\ii, Fcbraary). General colour above dark 

 rufous chocolate, becoming lighter rufous on the rump and upper, 

 tail-coverts ; wing-coverts rufous-brown, the greater series edged 

 with laveivler-grey near the tips of the outer webs ; bastard-wing 

 feathers ashy grey barred with black ; primary-coverts black, 

 forming a wing-patch ; quills black, externallj' sandy brown, in- 

 clining to bright rufous near the base of the primaries, the outer- 

 most of the latter being margined with grey ; all the quills 

 chequered with black bars on the outer web, these bars more di- 

 stinct on the secondaries and continued right across to the innermost 

 of the latter, which are also browner ; tail-feathers black, bright 

 rufous towaids the base, with a few black bars, the rufous colour 

 extending for half the distance of the centre feathers, and dimi- 

 nishing towards the outer ones, all but the centre feathers tipped 

 with white : head strongly crested, dusky brown, the frontal feathers 

 narrowly fringed with greyish white : hind neck and mantle dull 

 earthy brown ; lores and feathers below the ej'e dusky ; over the 

 latter a shade of ashy not sufficient to form an ej-ebrow ; ear- 

 coverts dull ashy grey, slightly blacker towards the eye ; cheeks, 

 throat, and entire breast ashy greyish, a little whiter on the throat, 

 all the feathers obscurely centred with dusky brown ; flanks and 

 thighs dull rufous, the latter washed with grey like the abdomen ; 

 under tail-coverts rufous ; uuder wing-coverts and axillaries ashy, 

 the latter browner ; quills dusky brown below, rufescent along the 

 inner web. Total length 7"4 inches, culmen 0*75, wing 3*15, 

 tail 3-1, tarsus 1-25. {Mus. H. H. Godivin-Ausien.) 



Hah. Dafla hills. 



0, Actinodura oglei, 



Actinura oglei, Goihvin- Austen, J. A. S. Beny. xlvi. part 2, p. 42, 



pi. xi. (1877) ; Hume, Sir. F. 1877, p. 341. 

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



Adult male (type of species). General colour above fulvescent 

 brown, with fine dusky cross markings on most of the feathers ; 

 wing-coverts like the back, the greater series a trifle more rufescent ; 

 quills dusky brown, externally fulvous-brown, barred with blackish, 

 these bars beiiig continued across the inner secondaries : ujiper tail- 

 coverts a little more fulvous than the back and with the same dusky 

 cross markings ; tail-feathers brown, externally washed with dull 

 fulvous-brown and regularly barred across with dusky cross lines ; 

 head and hind neck golden brown, slightl)' overspreading the mantle, 

 many of the feathers edged and tipped with black, which appears to 

 form a bar separating the head from the white-spotted plumes on the 



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