120 TIMELUD^E. 



Length. 7-5 inches; culmen o - 8 ; wing 3-65 ; tail 3-4 ; tarsus i'3> (Mus. 

 H. H. Godwin-Austen; ex. Sharped) 

 Hab. Munipur, N.-E. Bengal. 



580 Actinodura Nipalensis (Hodgs.), Gray, Gen. B.\. p. 226; 



Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 53, No. 428 ; Gould, Birds Asia, pt. xviii. ; Godw.-Aust. t 

 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., xvi. p. 340; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 97. 

 Cinclosoma nipalensis, Hodgs., Asiat. Research, xix. p. 145. The HOARY BAR- 

 WING. 



PLATE. jFY. 21 and 2. 



Plumage above rufescent brown with an olivaceous tinge ; head and nape, 

 also the crest, which is full and soft, pure brown, the centre of each feather 

 hoary; lores streaked with hoary ; cheeks black ; under surface of body pale 

 ashy brown, fulvescent on the throat, more so on the lower flanks and thighs, 

 and tawny on the under tail coverts ; rump and upper tail coverts more rufous 

 than the back, the latter with indistinct dusky cross bars ; bastard wing 

 feathers grey, barred and tipped black ; primary coverts black ; quills blackish 

 brown, externally bright rufous and chequered with narrow cross bars of 

 black ; inner secondaries fulvous brown, inclining to ashy at the ends and 

 barred across with black : tail black, barred with rufous and black near the 

 base and tipped with white ; axillaries ashy fulvous ; under wing coverts light 

 rufous. Bill dusky horny ; legs fleshy brown ; irides brown. 



Length. 7-5 to 8 inches ; wing 3-6 to 3-8; tail 3-1 to 3-5 ; culmen o'8 ; 

 tarsus 1-25. 



The young are paler brown and more rufescent on the head, where the 

 white streaks are broader and more plainly marked ; cheek stripe brown. 



Hab. The Himalayas, extending into the hills of N.-E. Bengal. Accord- 

 ing to Jerdon it replaces A. Egertoni at higher elevations, being found from 

 about 7,000 to 10.000 feet and upwards. It is recorded from Nepaul, 

 Darjeeling, Sikkim and Bhootan. In its habits it is like its congeners, quite 

 arboreal, never descending to the ground. Feeds on insects and berries. 



581. Actinodura DaflaensiS, Godwin- Austen, Ann. and Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. xvi. p. 339; id. J. A. S. B. xlvi. part 2, p. 77, pi. iv.j Hume, Str. F. 

 1876, p. 219; 1879, p. 97 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 467. The 

 DAFLA BAR-WING. 



Adult female. (Dafla hills, February). General colour above dark rufous 

 chocolate, becoming lighter rufous on the rump and upper tail coverts ; wing 

 coverts rufous brown ; the greater series edged with lavender grey near the 

 tips of the outer webs ; bastard wing feathers ashy grey barred with black ; 

 primary coverts black, forming a wing patch ; quills black, externally sandy 

 brown, inclining to bright rufous near the base of the primaries, the outermost 

 of the latter being margined with grey; all the quills chequered with black 



