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coverts are much more ochraceous 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 the Brahmaputra in Assam to 
Manipur. 
Nidification. Similar to that of the last bird but breeds at a 
lower elevation, 7.e. between 3,500 and 6,000 feet. The eggs 
cannot be distinguished from those of the last bird and are like 
poorly coloured, weakly marked specimens of those of T’rochalo- 
pterum pheniceum. One hundred eggs average 23:4 17-7 mm., and 
the extremes are 25°0X18°4, 21:7 17-4 and 22:0x17'0 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 cf 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. 
Rippon’s BaR-wIinea. 
Actinodura rippont Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1907, p. 166 (Mt. Victoria). 
Vernacular names. Pong-prap (Kachin). 
Description. Similar to A. e. khasiana but with the crown dark 
erey as in A. e. egertont 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 two 
other birds. ‘Ten eggs taken by Harington, Mackenzie, Grant 
and others average 23:0X17°5 mm. Harington obtained their 
nests from bamboo clumps. 
(324) Actinodura ramsayi ramsayi. 
RaMSAyY’s Bar-wInc. 
Actinodura ramsayi Walden, A. M. N. H., (4) xv, p. 402 (1875) 
(Karennee) ; Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 202. 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
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