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greater part of the visible portion of both webs of the tertiaries 

 bright golden olive, in some however with a decided greenish tinge, 

 and the color usually brightest and most intense towards the bases 

 of the primaries ; the tips of the tertiaries and later secondaries 

 more or less untouched with this color, giving the effect of rather 

 irregular ill-defined black or blackish tippings. The tail is dark 

 brown, margined everywhere, and both webs of the central, 

 and the outer webs of the lateral, feathers suffused, with a some- 

 what duller shade of the wing color, varying, as this does, 

 from bright golden olive to dull greenish olive yellow; the wing- 

 lining varies ; when the red descends far on the breast, it is chiefly 

 ruddy olive brown, but in others, which show less red on the 

 breast and abdomen, it is a pure olive or olive brown, some few 

 of the longest feathers being like the lower surface of the quills, 

 a dark glossy, somewhat blackish hair brown ; the edges of the 

 wing are white, yellowish or ruddy in patches varying a good 

 deal in different specimens. 



The general appearance of the birds does not differ very much ; 

 but, as I have endeavoured to show above, there is an extraordi- 

 nary amount of variation in the details and tints of coloration 

 in different specimens, perhaps more so than in any species of 

 this group with which I am acquainted. 



427 ter. — Actinodura ramsayi, Wald. Descr. S. F., 

 III., 404 



Obtained by Ramsay, "frequenting the jungle-covered moun- 

 tain streams in the open country of Karennee, at 3,000 feet ;" 

 he gives the irides light hair brown, the bill horny brown, and 

 the legs slaty brown. 



429 quat.— Sibia melanoleuca, Tick. (23). 



2,000 feet above Paraduba ; Mooleyit. 



Confined apparently to the higher slopes of Mooleyit. 



[This pretty Sibia was common about the higher parts of 

 Mooleyit, especially where the jungle was open. I found it 

 very partial to the trees about the " Sakans" or camping 

 grounds. 



Its note resembles that of Sibia capistrata, and is a single 

 long-drawn clear-sounding whistle, sounding like ' ' whee-e-e-e- 

 oo/' the " whee" being very much prolonged, the " oo" short 

 and abrupt. When I was at Mooleyit, the birds were breeding, 

 and consequently were always found in pairs. Their food 

 consists quite as much of small berries as it does of insects, 

 which latter they capture amongst the smaller branches and 

 the foliage of the tree tops in which they are always moving 

 about. They never descend to the ground or even amongst 

 brushwood. 



