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Length. % to S'S inches ; wing 3-35 to 3-4 ; tail 4-5 to 4*8. 



Hah. The Himalayas extending into North-Eastern Bengal. Common rom 

 Nepaul to the hill ranges of Assam and Sylhet. In Sikkim it is found at from 

 5,000 to 6,000 feet elevation, associating in small flocks, and feeding on 

 insects and fruit. 



578. Actinodura Ramsayi ( Walden}, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mas. 

 vii. p. 465. Actinura Ramsayi, Walden, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. xv. 

 p. 402; Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 404; Wald. in Blyth's B. Burnt, p. 108 ; 

 Godivin-Austen, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. xvi. p. 340; Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, 

 p. 464, pi. xii. RAMSAY'S BAR-WING. 



Whole upper plumage ashy brown tinged with ferruginous on the forehead ; 

 most of the feathers, especially the scapulars and upper tail coverts, barred with 

 black ; feathers round the eye white ; lores dusky ; ear coverts ashy brown ; 

 sides of the back and of the head, also the lateral feathers of the crest, ashy ; 

 under surface of body ochraceous buff ; tail olive brown, with numerous 

 cross-bars of black and tipped with white ; outer webs of primaries and 

 secondaries ferruginous, barred throughout with black ; inner webs brown ; 

 tertiaries olive brown barred with black ; axillaries and under wing coverts 

 fawn colour. Bill horny brown ; legs slaty brown ; irides light hair brown. 



Length. 9-5 to 9-8 inches; wing 3-5 ; tail 5 ; tarsus 1-15 ; culmen 07. 



Hab. Karenne (British Burmah), at an elevation of about 3,000 feet. 

 Affects jungle-covered mountain-streams. 



579. Actinodura Waldeni, Godwin- Austen, P.Z. S. 1874; Gould, 



B. Asia, part xxvii. ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 97 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 vii. p. 465. WALDEN'S BAR-WING. 



Above rufous brown, a little clearer rufous on the rump and upper tail 

 coverts ; wing coverts like the back, the greater series edged with lavender 

 grey near the tips of the outer webs ; bastard wing feathers dull ashy with a 

 tinge of rufous and barred across with black ; primary coverts black, forming a 

 conspicuous wing spot; quills black, externally rufous, brighter towards the 

 base of the primaries, the outer web all barred with black ; secondaries dull 

 brown, barred across with black ; outer primaries edged towards their tip 

 with lavender grey ; tail feathers black, all except the centre ones tipped with 

 white, bright rufous towards the base and barred with black ; hind neck dull 

 ashy brown overspreading the mantle ; head crested, dusky brown, the feathers 

 edged with ashy whitish ; lores and cheeks dusky ash brown, the latter washed 

 with rufous ; ear coverts hoary grey ; entire under surface of the body rufous, 

 paler on the throat and chest, which are slightly mottled with dark rufous 

 brown centres to the feathers ; flanks, thighs and under tail coverts darker and 

 more of a mahogany brown ; under wing coverts and axillaries rufous brown 

 like the breast. 



