308 TIMALIID ©. 
rufous shaft-streaks; sides of neck, mantle, back and lesser wing- 
coverts rufescent brown, with indistinct pale shaft-lines; rump 
and upper tail-coverts more rufous and unstreaked ; primary- 
coverts black ; greater coverts rufous tipped with hoary; quills 
chestnut, barred with black on the onter webs; innermost 
nesqeens and barred on both webs; the outer oe of the first 
few primaries more or less ashy ; basal portion of tail castaneous, 
barred with black, the chestnut decreasing in extent on the outer 
feathers, the other portions black, tipped with white; ear-coverts 
and lores pale grey; cheeks black, the black continuing back 
below the ear-coverts; chin, throat and breast fulvous-ashy, 
turning to ferruginous on the flanks, lower abdomen and under 
tail-coverts. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris brown, eyelid bluish grey; bill 
brownish black; feet brownish-fleshy, claws livid (Scully). 
Measurements. Length about 200 mm.; wing 84 to 91 mm. ; 
tail about 80 to 8omin.; tarsus about 830mm.; culmen 17 to 18mm, 
As usual with the 7imaliide, the female is decidedly smaller than 
the male. 
Distribution. Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan. 
Nidification. Hodgson notes that this Bar-wing breeds between 
4,000 and 6,000 feet in Sikkim and Nepal but the nest and eggs 
he describes in no way resemble any other birds of this group, and 
judging from the very close connection of this genus with the 
genus Actinodura there is possibly some mistake. Other observers 
say that in the breeding season they haunt mountains nearer the 
8,000-foot levels. 
Habits. Jerdon says that it is more arboreal than birds of the 
last genus and that it feeds chiefly on insects which it obtains from 
the higher parts of moderate-sized trees, especially those with 
insect-infested flowers such as rhododendrons. He gives _its 
habitat as from about 7,000 to 10,000 feet upwards. 
(327) Ixops nipalensis ‘waldeni. 
Watpen’s Bar-wine. 
Actinodura waldeni Godw.-Aust., P. Z.8., 1874, p. 46 (Japvo Peak, 
Naga Hills). 
Ivops waldeni. Blanf, & Oates, i, p. 204. 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. eathers of head darker than in the last bird and 
unstreaked but with pale edges; the upper plumage is ee 
also unstreaked; the whole lower plumage is rufous, the feather 
of the chin, throat and breast with pale edges, giving a pe ee 
appearance ; ear-coverts silvery-grey with fine dark centres. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris pale grey; bill grey; legs and feet 
fleshy-brown (Godw.-Aust.). 
Measurements as in the preceding race. 
Distribution. Naga Hills and Manipur. 
