52 BIRDS OF INDIA. 



We have next in order two genera which differ somewhat, 

 both in structure and habits, from the others of this family, but 

 which, nevertheless, appear to belong to it. They are more arbo- 

 real in their habits, less social and noisy, and they appear to 

 have some affinities for the Leiotrichina', and analogies for the 

 Jays. 



Gen. AcTiNODURA, Gould, 



Syn. Ixops, Hodgs. — Leiochicla, Bl. 



Char. — Bill moderately long and compressed, rather slender, 

 slightly curved ; nostrils linear, basal ; rictal bristles few and weak ; 

 wings short, rounded, 5th, 6th, and 7th quills about equal ; tail 

 long, graduated ; tarsus moderate, stout ; lateral toes unequal ; 

 anterior claws long, moderately curved ; hind toe with the claw 

 strong and well curved. Plumage copious, dense, and silky; 

 wings barred ; tail obscurely banded ; head crested. 



This genus was considered by Hodgson to be a link between 

 Sibia and Cinclosoma. Bonaparte in his Conspectus placed it next 

 to Malacocircus, but afterwards removed it to the Garrulax series. 

 Blyth, Horsfield, and Gray all recognise its affinity to this family, 

 and I think it may be considered to lead from Trochalopteron 

 to Malacocircus. There are only two species known. 



427. Actinodura Egertoni, Gould. 



P. Z. S., 1836— Bltth, Cat. 501— Horsf., Cat. 307— Ixops 

 rufifrons, HoDGSON — Leiocincla plumosa, Blyth— Gould, Birds 

 of Asia, pi. — Ram7iio-p7io, Lepch. 



The Kufous Bar-wing. 

 Descr. — Crown and nape soft brown, passing into ashy pink on 

 the crest ; forehead deep red-brown ; ear-coverts silky ashy 

 brown ; back, rump, shoulder of wing, and coverts, red-brown ; 

 primaries, except the first three, barred with black on a reddish 

 ash ground; the secondaries and tertiaries with narrow dark 

 bars on a more rufous ground ; tail dark ruddy brown, faintly 

 barred with dusky (except the two central tail-feathers), and 

 white tipped ; beneath pale rufescent, tinged Avith ashy on the 

 neck and breast, and with red-brown on the throat. 



