STAPHIDIA. 309 
Nidification and Habits. Nothing recorded beyond the fact that 
it is found up to 9,000 feet and frequents the tops of trees. 
(328) Ixops nipalensis poliotis. 
Tue Coin Hitis Bar-wine. 
Ivops poliotis Rippon, Bull. B.O.C., xv, p. 97 (1905) (Mt. Victoria). 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Similar to 7. ». waldent but much darker above, 
almost a maroon-brown; the ear-coverts are darker grey with 
broader brown centres. 
Colours of soft parts and Measurements as in the last bird. 
Distribution. Chin Hills, Mt. Victoria. 
Nidification and Habits. Nothing recorded. 
(329) Ixops nipalensis daflaensis. 
AUSTEN’S BAR-WING. 
Actinodura daflaensis Godw.-Aust., A. M.N. H., (4) xvi, p. 840 (1875) 
(Dafla Hills). 
Txrops daflaensis. Blanf. & Oates, 1, p. 204. 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Similar to J. n. waldent but a darker, duller 
chestnut above and the chin, throat and breast-feathers grey with 
reddish-brown central streaks, the whole effect being grey, not 
rufous ; ear-coverts a rather darker grey. 
Colours of soft parts and Measurements as in the Hoary Bar- 
wing. 
Distribution. Dafla and Miri Hills. 
Habits. ‘There is nothing on record beyond the fact that Godwin- 
Austen shot it in high forest on Shengorh Peak at about 7,000 feet. 
Genus STAPHIDIA Swinhoe, 1871. 
The members of the genus Staphidia are found in the hilly 
regions of North-Eastern India, Burma and China and again in 
Borneo. ‘Two species are found within our limits, one of which 
is represented by two geographical races. 
In Staphidia the bill is short and thick and resembles that of 
Txulus, figured below ; the nostrils are overhung by a few long 
hairs ; the rictal bristles are short and the head is crested. The 
tail is comparatively long and much graduated. Some species of 
this genus have been wrongly retained in Jeulus by Indian 
authors, the square tail of Zvulus at once separating it from the 
rounded tail of Staphidia. 
In this genus the first three primaries are graduated, the third 
and fourth being subequal. 
