340 Major H. H. Godwin-Austen on a new Actinura. 



and breast is also a mark of connexion with A. Waldeni. On 

 comparison, it is seen that Actinura daflaensis bears the same 

 relation to nipalensis that Waldeni does to Egertoni. 



The genus is a very well-marked one ; and we can now record 

 from the Indian region five species (including A. Ramsayi 

 from Tonghoo, in Burmah, described by Viscount Walden in 

 'Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist.' for June 1875), viz. :— 1. A. Eger- 

 toni, Gould; 2. A. nipalensis, Hodgson; 3. A. Waldeni, Godwin- 

 Austen ; 4. A. daflaensis, Godwin- Austen ; 5. A. Ramsayi, 

 Walden. The last is a very distinct and interesting bird, a 

 departure from the East-Himalayan type, but yet in every 

 point a true Actinura. 



Actinura daflaensis, n. sp. 



Male. Above — head ash-brown ; feathers in front spatulate, 

 behind elongated into a full crest, narrowly pale-edged ; the 

 ash tint pales on back of neck, and merges into the strong 

 rusty brown of the back and upper tail-coverts ; base of tail- 

 feathers of same colour, followed by four or five black bars, 

 and the terminal half all black, the three outer tipped white, 

 with a slight tendency to barring on the extreme outer web ; 

 side of head ash-grey, the ear-coverts with light silky reflections; 

 shoulder of wing rusty brown ; first primary coverts tipped 

 with grey, forming a distinct narrow band, the last (covering 

 the first seven primaries) black, forming a patch ; the primaries 

 are sienna-brown, outermost edged with hoary grey, black on 

 inner webs and extremities, and narrowly barred with black 

 on the terminal outer web ; secondaries evenly and narrowly 

 barred black and pale olivaceous umber. Beneath — the chin 

 and throat pale dingy white, becoming a dirty ochry ash on 

 the breast, with a blurry striation particularly on the throat ; 

 flanks and under tail- coverts rusty brown ; tail beneath ashy 

 black, the outermost feathers distinctly barred. Bill dark 

 horny, legs the same ; irides ? 



Length 7'5 inches, wing 3'5, tail 3*2, tarsus 1*3, bill at 

 front 0-68. 



Hah. In high forest at 7000 feet, Dafla hills, and first shot 

 on Shengorh Peak in February. 



I trust to give a figure of this bird in the Journal of the 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal as soon as I have completed the 

 list of birds collected in the Dafla hills, which is now being 

 worked out. 



