ACTi.NOItl K A. 201 



out IT coverts and giving place to black ; wingletand primary-coverts 

 black; edge of wing bluish grey ; tertiaries umber-brown, edged 

 with black on the outer webs ; secondaries black, broadly edged 

 externally with dark bluish grey ; primaries black, with the outer 

 web$ almost entirely pale bluish grey ; lores and round ^the eye 

 black ; ear-coverts bluish grey mottled with black ; the sides of 

 the neck and the entire lower plumage ashy_bl'.ie tinged with 

 vinous. 



Bill black ; legs horny-brown (Godwin-Austen). 



Length about 9'5 ; tail 4-9 ; wing 4'1 ; tarsus 1-3 ; bill from 

 gape 1*1. 



Distribution. The Peak of Khunho, Eastern Burrail range, Naga 

 hills, at about 8000 feet ; the slopes of Toruputu Peak, Daphla 

 hills, at about 5000 feet. 



Habits, &fc. God win- Austen, the discoverer of this species, says 

 that it is found in companies of about half a dozen haunting the 

 tops of the rhododendron trees, the flowers of which it searches 

 busily for insects. 



Genus ACTINODURA, Gould, 1836. 



The genus Actinodura, as I restrict it, contains two species. 

 Other birds which have been hitherto placed in this genus I have 

 transferred to Ixops of Hodgson. 



In Actinodura the bill is rather slender, about half the length of 

 the head, and of very similar shape to that of Ixops figured below ; 

 the nostrils are covered by a very large membrane, and the rictal 

 bristles are long and distinct. The tail is considerably longer than 

 the wing and greatly graduated. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Median tail-feathers barred only at the extreme 



tip A. eyertoni, p. 201. 



b. Median tail-feathers barred throughout A. ramsayi, p. 202. 



211. Actinodura egertoni. The Rufous Bar-winy. 



Actinodura egertoni, Gould, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 18; Blyth, Cat. p. 98 j 

 Horsf. # M. Cat. i, p. 212; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 52; Godw.-Aust. 

 J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. ii, p. 105 ; xlv, pt. ii, p. 76 ; xlvii, pt. ii, 

 p. 24; Hume, N. 8f E. p. 266; id. S. F. vii, p. 153; id. Cat, 

 no. 427 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 463 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 170 j 

 Oates in Hume's N. fy E. 2nd ed. i, p. 136. 



Ramnio-plto, Lepch. 



Coloration. Crest rich ashy brown ; forehead, lores, round the 

 eye, cheeks, and chin rufous ; ear-coverts, sides of neck, and mantle 

 brown, paler than the crest ; smaller wing-coverts, back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts reddish brown ; primary -coverts almost entirely 

 black ; greater coverts chestnut ; inner webs of primaries and 



