ArTlNOD-URA. 



bars on the outer web, these bars more distinct o>n the secondaries and 

 continued right across to the innermost of the latter, which are also browner ; 

 tail feathers black, bright rufous towards the base, with a few black bars, the 

 rufous colour extending for half the distance of the centre feathers and diminish- 

 ing towards the outer ones, all but the centre feathers tipped with white; head 

 strongly crested, dusky brown, the frontal feathers narrowly fringed with 

 greyish white ; hind neck and mantle dull earthy brown ; lores and feathers 

 below the eye dusky ; over the latter a shade of ashy not sufficient to form 

 an eyebrow ; ear coverts dull ashy grey slightly blacker towards the eye ; 

 cheeks, throat, and entire breast ashy greyish, a little whiter on the throat, all 

 the feathers obscurely centred with dusky brown; flanks and thighs dull 

 rufous, the latter washed with grey like the abdomen; under tail coverts 

 rufous ; under wing coverts and axillaries ashy, the latter browner. 



Length. 7*4 inches ; culmen 075 ; wing 3-15 ; tail 3*1 : tarsus 1*25. (Mus. 

 H, H. Godwin- Aus ten*} 



Hub. Dafla Hills. 



582. Actinodlira Ogleil, Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. Seng. xlvi. 

 part 2, p. 42, pi. xi. (1877); Ifume, Str. F. 1877, p. 341 ; Sharpe, Cat.B. Br. 

 Mus. vii. p. 466. Actinodura Oglei, Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 97. OGLE'S 

 BAR-WING. 



Adult male. (Type of species). General colour above fulvescent brown, 

 with fine dusky cross markings on most of the feathers ; wing coverts like 

 the back ; the greater series a trifle more rufescent ; quills dusky brown, 

 externally fulvous brown and barred with blackish, these bars being continued 

 across the inner secondaries ; upper tail coverts a little more fulvous than the 

 back and with the same dusky cross markings ; tail feathers brown externally, 

 washed with dull fulvous brown and regularly barred across with dusky cross 

 lines ; head and hind neck golden brown, slightly overspreading the mantle, 

 many of the feathers edged and tipped with black, which appears to form a 

 bar separating the head from the white-spotted plumes on the eyebrow and 

 sides of neck ; base of forehead and lores with blackish shaft lines ; a 

 broad white eyebrow continued on to the sides of the neck and behind the 

 ear coverts in the form of ovate white drops bordered with black ; ear coverts 

 black ; cheeks and throat pure white ; sides of neck and breast ashy grey ; 

 sides of body and abdomen rufescent brown, clearer on the under tail coverts 

 and thighs ; under wing coverts and axillaries fulvous brown, more or less 

 washed with ashy. Bill black above, grey below ; legs and feet umber brown ; 

 iris crimson lake. (Ogle.) 



Length. 6 inches; culmen 0-85; wing 27; (SJiarpe) ; tail 2-5; tarsus 

 10-5. (Mus. H. H. Godwin-Austen.) (Sharpe.) 



Hal>. Sadiya, Assam. 

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