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the rump and lesser upper tail-coverts. Tail olive brown, 

 (greyer or browner in different specimens, usually greyer on the 

 lateral feathers) regularly, closely, but obsoletely barred paler, 

 and all the laterals excessively narrowly, often obsoletely, 

 fringed at the tips with greyish white ; breast pure more or 

 less pale buff, growing more rusty or faintly ochraceous on 

 the abdomen and vent, and more decidedly so on the 

 lower tail-coverts ; the pale shafting is in light-coloured 

 specimens barely traceable on the abdomen ; sides, flanks 

 and exterior tibial plumes (the interior ones are like the 

 vent) greyish or brownish olivaceous ; axillaries pale buff ; 

 wing-lining grey brown, mingled with this, and some of the 

 primary lower greater coverts just perceptibly pale shafted ; 

 quills brown, paler on the tertiaries ; the primaries, except 

 the first, dull French grey on their outer webs, and the later 

 of these towards their bases and the secondaries more or less 

 nearly to their tips, tinged on their outer webs with chestnut 

 maroon, as are usually the primary greater coverts ; winglet 

 brown, greyish on the outer webs and often more or less white 

 tipped ; secondary greater and median coverts rich chestnut 

 maroon ; lesser coverts brown, more or less tinged with this 

 maroon, and usually the shaft stripes very conspicuous. 



God win- Austen obtained the type at an elevation of 5,000 

 feet near the village of E,azami under the Kopamedza ridge 

 in the Naga hills, but there is no other record as yet of its 

 occurrence in Assam, Sylhet, Cachar or British Burmah. 



427. — Actinodura egertoni, Gould. 



This species was excessively common in both Western and 

 Eastern hills, everywhere in forest above about 4,500 feet 

 elevation. They go about in small parties and are quite tree 

 birds, clambering about, and poking into every hole and 

 cranny and foraging about in the huge bunches of orchids 

 and other parasites much like Tits. 



All my very numerous specimens belong to the paler form 

 of this, common in the Khasi hills, which God win- Austen 

 was at one time disposed to separate as A. kkasiana. But I 

 have now carefully compared nearly one hundred specimens 

 from Assam and Manipur with about half that number from the 

 Himalayas, and I can discover absolutely no constant difference 

 either in size or markings on tail, or in any respect except in 

 tint. As a body the Himalayan specimens are decidedly more 

 rufous and deeper colored, the Assamese ones are more 

 olivaceous, fulvous and paler ; and even this difference is not 

 quite constant, since there are one or two pale non-rufous 



