i.vors. 



Length ;il)otil I)'"); tail "> : \\ino- ;{."); tarsus 1-1: bill from 

 gape !). 



Resembles A. cr/crtoni in general appearance, but differs in many 

 important particulars. 



l)'i*trilmtion m This species was discovered by Ward law liamsay 

 al K vai-pho-gyee in Karennee, in a jungle-covered mountain-stream 

 at an elevation of about 3000 feet. 



Genus IXOPS, Hodgs., 1844. 



The genus Lvi>s resembles Actinofhtra, but has the tail rather 

 shorter than the wing, and the tail-feathers less graduated. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Throat and breast fulvous ashy, without stripes. . I. nepalensis, p. 203. 



b. Throat and breast cinereous, with darker stripes. . /. daflaensis, p. 204. 



c. Throat and breast rufous, stiiped with chestnut. . /. waldeni, p. 204. 



213. Ixops nepalensis. The Hoary Ear-winy. 



Cinclosoma nipalensis, Hodgs. As. Res. xix, p. 145 (1836). 

 Actinodura nipalensis (Hodys.), Blyth, Cat. p. 98; Jforsf. Sf M. Cat. 



i, p. 212; Jerd. 1J. I. ii,'p. 53; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 308; Hume, 



N. $ E. p. 260 ; id. Cat. no. 428 ; Scully, S. F. viii, p-. 292 ; Sharpe. 



Cat. B. M. vii, p. 466. 

 Ixops nepalensis, Hodgs., Gray's Zoul. Misc. p. 84 ; id. J. A. S. U. 



xx iv, p. 577 ; Oatcs in Hume's N. fy E. 2nd ed. i, p. 137. 



Rammo-pJio, Lepch. 



Fig. GO. Head of /. ncpalcnsis. 



Coloration. Forehead and crest coffee-brown, with long hoary 

 shaft-streaks ; sides of neck, mantle, back, and lesser wing-coverts 

 rufescent brown, with indistinct . whitish shaft-lines; rump and 

 upper tail- coverts more rufous and streakless; primary-coverts 

 black ; greater coverts rufous tipped with hoary ; quills chestnut, 

 barred with black on the outer webs, tertiaries rufescent and barred 

 with black on both webs ; the outer webs of the earlier primaries 

 more or less ashy; basal portion of tail castaneous barred with 

 black, the chestnut decreasing in extent from the median feathers to 

 the laterals, the other portions black tipped with white ; ear-coverts 



