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coverts are much more ocbraceous and the central tail-feathers 

 are mnch more distinctly barred. 



Colours of soft parts and Measurements as in the last bird. 



Distribution. Hills South of tlie Brahmaputra in Assam to 

 Manipur. 



Nidification. Similar to that of the last bird but breeds at a 

 lower elevation, {. e. between 3,5U0 and 6,000 feet. The eggs 

 cannot be distinguished from those of the last bird and are like 

 poorly coloured, \^eakly marked specimens of those of Trochalo- 

 pterum phoemceum. One hundred eggs average 23-4 x 17'7mm., and 

 the extremes are 25-0 X 18-4, 21-7 X 17-4 and 22-0 X 17-0 mm. 



Habits. This is a very common bird over all the Western Hills 

 South of the Brahmaputra but much more rare to the East. It 

 wanders about in parties of half-a-dozen to a dozen or so, keeping 

 principally to the tree-tops and bigger trees, as described by Hume 

 when referring to the last bird but sometimes haunting the lower 

 cover when there is any special attraction. In N. Cachar they 

 were found occasionally feeding on the ground amongst straw- 

 berries, which were infested with a little black fly. In these latter 

 cases we found the stomachs contained a mass of crushed straw- 

 berries and flies, the birds evidently swallowing them together. 

 They were not shy birds and allowed quite close observation 

 without moving away but they were always most restless and 

 quick in their motions. 



(323) Actinodura egertoni ripponi. 

 liippox's Bar-wixg. 

 Actinoihira ripponi Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1907, p. 166 (Mt. Victoria). 



Vernacular names. Pong-prap (Kachiu). 



Description. Similar to A. e. khasiana but with the crown dark 

 grey as in A. e. egertoni and the back, rump and upper tail-coverts 

 olive-green. 



Colours of soft parts and Measurements as in the other races. 



Distribution. Chin and Kachin Hills. 



Nidification and Habits differ in no way from those of the tuo 

 other bu'ds. Ten eggs taken by Harington, Mackenzie, Grrant 

 and others average 23-0xI7"5 mm. Harington obtained their 

 nests from bamboo clumps. 



(324) Actinodura ramsayi ramsayi. 



Eamsat's Bau-wing. 



Actinodura ramsayi Walden, A. M. N, H., (4) xv, p. 402 (1876) 

 (Kareiiuee) ; Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 202. 



Vernacular names. None recorded. 



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