305 TIMALIIDA. 
Description. Upper plumage ashy olive-brown, tinged with 
ferruginous on the head and more so on the forehead, the feathers 
of the back, rump and upper tail-coverts faintly cross- barred with 
black ; lores dusky ; a conspicuous ring of white round the eye; 
sides of head ashy ; primary-ceverts black ; inner secondaries and 
other wing-coverts olive-brown, distinctly barred with black : 
outer webs of primaries and outer secondaries chestnut on the 
basal, ashy on the terminal halves, barred with black ; tail olive- 
brown, distinctly barred with numerous narrow black bars, the 
bars increasing in width on the outer feathers; all the tail- 
feathers tipped with white ; whole lower plumage ochraceous buff, 
becoming browner on the under tail-coverts. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris light hair-brown ; bill horny-brown ; 
legs slaty-brown ( Wardlaw-Ramsay). 
Measurements. Total length 230 to 240 mm.; wing 86 to 
90 mm.; tail about 120 to 180 mm.; tarsus about 28mm. ; culmen 
about 18 mm. 
Distribution. The Southern Shan States and Karenni. 
Nidification unknown. 
Habits. Rippon records of this bird in the Shan States: ‘* The 
habits of this bird are very like those of Letoptila castanoptera ; 
it hops rapidly from branch to branch, frequently uttering its 
eall. The call of LZ. castanoptera is three notes in the minor in a 
descending scale, preceded by a flourish; that of 4. ramsayi is 
the same without the flourish.” It is found in heavy forest or 
brushwood between 3,000 and 5,000 feet elevation. 
(325) Actinodura ramsayi radcliffei. 
Tur Rupy Mines BaRr-wine. 
Actinodura ramsayi radcliffec Harington, Bull. B. O. C., xiii, p. 9 
(1910) (Ruby Mines). 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. ‘ Differs from A. ramsayi in having the fore part 
of the head and crest darker ferruginous, the general colour of 
the upper parts ochraceous ; the abdomen is conspicuously white, 
and the feathers of the throat have rather conspicuous shaft- 
streaks.” 
Colours of soft parts. “Iris brown ; bill dark brown ; legs pale 
brown.” 
Measurements. ‘“ Total length about 246 mm.; culmen 20 mm. ; 
wing 91:4 mm. ; tail 127 mm.; tarsus 30°5 mm.” 
Distribution. ‘‘ The type, the only specimen obtained, was shot 
by Col. H. Delmé-Radcliffe in the Ruby Mines District, Upper 
Burma.” : 
Nidification and Habits unknown. 
