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and lores silvery ashy ; cheeks black, continued narrowly along the 

 base of the ear-coverts ; chin, throat, and breast fulvous ashy, 

 turning to ferruginous on the flanks, lower abdomen, vent, and 

 under tail-coverts. 



Bill brownish black ; iris brown; eyelid bluish grey ; feet brown- 

 ish fleshy ; claws livid (Scully). 



Length about 8; tail 3*3; wing 3*5; tarsus 1*2; bill from gape '9. 



Distribution, Nepal, Sikhim, and Bhutan, at elevations of from 

 4000 to 10,000 feet. 



Habits, tyc. According to Jerdon this species is still more ar- 

 boreal than A. eyertoni, and it feeds on the insects which infest the 

 floxyers of the rhododendron trees. Hodgson states that it breeds 

 from April to June, constructing a saucer-shaped nest of twigs, 

 grass, and fibres, in crevices between rocks and stones. The 

 colour of the eggs is a matter about which there seems to be some 

 doubt. 



214. Ixops daflaensis. Austen's Bar-wing. 



Actinura daflaensis, Godwin-Austen, A. M. N. H. (4) xvi, p. 340 

 (1875) ; id. J. A. S. B. xlv, pt. ii, p. 77, pi. iv; xlvii, pt, ii, p. 18 ; 

 Hume, S. F. iv, p. 219. 



Actinodura daflaensis (Godw.-Aust.}, Hume, Cat. no. 428 bis; Sharps, 

 Cat. B. M. vii, p. 467 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 172. 



Coloration. Forehead and crest dark brown, the feathers delicately 

 edged paler ; lores and cheeks dark brown ; sides of head silvery 

 ashy streaked with brown ; hind neck and sides of neck cinereous 

 brown ; back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and the smaller wing-coverts 

 chest nut-brown ; primary-coverts black ; greater wing-coverts 

 edged with hoary ; outer webs of the earlier primaries also hoary ; 

 the other primaries and the secondaries black on the terminal, 

 chestnut barred with black on the basal portion ; tertiaries rufes- 

 cent olive-brown, banded with black on both webs ; tail-feathers 

 chestnut at base, black elsewhere, tipped with white, the end of 

 the chestnut portion barred with black ; chin, throat, breast, and 

 upper abdomen cinereous streaked with brown ; lower abdomen, 

 sides of body, vent, and under tail-coverts deep chestnut-brown. 



Length about 8 ; tail 3'3; wing 3-5; tarsus 1/2; bill from 

 gape -9. 



Distribution. Godwin- Austen discovered this bird in high forest 

 on the Shengorh Peak, Daphla hills, at 7000 feet in February. 



215. Ixops waldeni. Walden's Bar-winy. 



Actinodura waldeni, Godwin- Austen, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 46, pi. xii ; 

 id. J. A. S. B. xliii, pt. ii,p. 163; Hume, S. F. iii, p. 396 ; id. Cat. 

 no. 427 bis ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 465. 



Coloration. Forehead, crown, crest, and nape dark brown, 

 narrowly edged with grey ; back, scapulars, and wing-coverts dull 

 rufous-brown, the outer coverts edged with bluish grey ; rump and 



