628 AVES. 



Actinodura nipalensis, Hodgs.^ Cat. Birds, Nep., p. 84, 1846 ; G. R. Gray, Gen. B., i, p. 226, 1846; 

 Elyth, Cat. E. Mus., As. Soc, Bengal, p. 98, 1849 ; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. ii, p. 53, 1863 ; 

 Gould, B.Asia,pt. xviii, 1866; Gray, Handl. B.,vol. i, p. 283, 1869; Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, p. 308. 



a, Ponsee, 20tli March 1868. 



106. Actinodura egertoni, Gould. 



Actinodura egertoni, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1836, p. 18; Gray, Cat. B., Nep., p. 84, 1846; id.. 

 Gen. B., vol. i, p. 226, 1846 ; Fraser, Zool. Typ., pi. xl, 1849 ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc,', 

 Bengal, p. 98, 1849; Bonap. Consp. Av., p. 373, 1850; Horsfield & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E, 

 Ind. Co., p. 212, 1856-58; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. ii, p. 52, 1863; Gould, B. Asia, pt. xviii, 

 1866 ; Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, p. 283, 1869; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B., p. 266, 1873. 



Leiocincla plumosa, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xii, p. 953, 1843, vol. xiv, p. 600, 1845. 



Alcmus nipalensis, Hodgs., in Gray^s Zool. Misc., p. 83, 1844. 



Actinwa egertoni, God win- Austen, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xlv, 1876, p. 76, 



a. Ponsee, 17th March 1868, 

 This is tlie only specimen I observed, 



Genus Pteruthius, Swainson. 

 107. Pteruthius ^ralatus, Tickell. PI. XLVII. 



Fternthius aralatus, Tickell, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, 1855, p. 267 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 3^; Gray, 

 Handl. B., i, 314, 1869; Blyth & Walden, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xliv, 1875, ex. No., 

 p. 109 ; Gould, B. Asia, 1st July 1876, part xxviii. 



AUotrius ceralatus, Hume, Stray Feathers, 1874, p. 479; op. cit., 1877, p. 114, 



a. t Ponsee, 20th March 1868. 

 i. $ Sanda, 27th July 1868, 



This species is quite similar to Ft, erythropterus of the Himalaya, as pointed 

 out by Blyth, except in that the latter has constantly the tertiaries wholly ferruo-i- 

 nous in both sexes. In the former the female has the tertiaries greenish golden 

 yellow, like the secondaries, with merely a tinge of ferruginous upon the shaft and 

 on the inner web only of each ; and the male differs from that of the Himalayan 

 bird by haying nearly the whole outer webs of the tertiaries bright golden yellow, 

 the first having also a black tip and inner edge ; the next a black tip to the outer 

 web only ; the third and longest, an oblique and elongated black tip to the outer 

 web, and the feather succeeding this has also a mark on its outer web, of mingled 

 ferruginous and golden yellow. 



Blyth further observes that he could not detect in the type specimen any trace 

 of the cameous tinge seen particularly on the flanks posteriorly of P. erythrop- 

 terus ; these specimens, however, show this distinctly, but more in the direction of 

 the vent than the flanks. The female has the under parts, with the exception of the 

 white throat only, much more fulyescent than the under parts of the female P, 

 erythropterus. 



