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surface generally ferruginous brown, many of the abdominal 
feathers being largely centred with white or fulvous white ; 
pectoral feathers with minute terminal white drops, or some 
with narrow white or fulvous white centres. A few almost 
pure white feathers on the middle of the breast; chin, white ; 
gular feathers, white, with pale fulvous or ferruginous edges ; 
bill, dark brown; legs, pale flesh-colour. 
Bill, from nostrils, -25; wing, 1°87; tarsus, °75 ; tail, 1:75. 
Described from a specimen obtained at Kedimai, in the 
Munipur bills. 
This species and P. longicaudatus constitute a section of the 
genus Pnoepyga, in which the tail is fully developed.—Ibis, 
1875, p. 252. 
Actinura daflaensis, Godwin-Austen. 
Amone the birds collected by me on the Expedition into the 
Dafla hills, Assam, last winter, one of the most interesting 
forms is the Actinura I now describe. As might be expected, 
its nearest ally is A. nipalensis, Hodgs., the coloration above 
being very similar on the back and tail, but with less rufous 
barring. The crest, however, is quite different ; and in this res- 
pect the species approaches A. Wa/deni from the Naga hills, 
on the south of the Brahmaputra valley, only that the crest 
is far fuller. The general blotchy streakiness of the throat 
and breast is also a mark of connexion with A. Waldeni. On 
comparison, it is seen that Actinura daflaensis bears the same 
relation to uipalensis 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. Ram- 
sayi from Tonghoo, in Burmah, described by Viscount Walden 
in‘ Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist.’ for June 1875), viz. :—1. A. 
Egertent, Gould; 2. A. nipalensis, Hodgson; 3. A. Waldeni,* 
Godwin-Austen; 4. A. daffaensis, Godwin-Austen; 5. A. 
Ramsayi,t 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. 
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 ; 
* §. F.,, IIT, 396. 
+S. F., ILL, 404, 
