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Head dark rufous brown, olivaceous on back, paler and greyer on 

 rump ; tail olive brown, with a slight tinge of rusty on basal half, finely 

 and indistinctly barred ; wing, three first quills grey on outer web, the rest 

 and secondaries pale ferruginous, merging into rich chesnut at their base ; 

 coverts of the latter colour, narrowly tipped ochre, feathers of the winglefc 

 conspicuously white centred. Lores chesnut, a white supercilium ; ear 

 coverts pale rusty ; chin and throat ricli dark chesnut ; breast and abdomen 

 bright ochraceous ; under tail-coverts darker brown. As viewed from 

 below, the tail is grey brown, each feather faintly tipped with white. 



All the feathers of the head, upper back flanks, and breast are centred 

 white or pale ochre, and those of head and neck are rigid. 



Bill black ; legs pinky grey ; irides pale brown. 



L. 90", W. 3-5", T. 485", t. 13", Bf. O'G". 



I obtained a single specimen near the village of Razami under the Kopa- 

 medza ridge at 5,000 feet in Naga Hills in the month of January. Starting 

 just after sunrise for the peak above the village, I observed first one and then 

 another bird, not familiar to me, cross the path in front into some thick 

 scrub. In this we could only perceive their whereabouts now and then by 

 the moving twigs. Followed about, they became separated and the 

 specimen in my collection got into a low tree where it uttered a very sweet 

 call of a few notes, which was answered by its mate ; my Shikari then man- 

 aged to get sight of it and shot it. I never saw the species again. 



This strikingly plumaged bird is very close to T, setafer, Hodgson, 

 with which I have compared it, but it differs materially. T. lineatuni. 

 Vigors, is another allied form which extends to the N. W. Himalayah while 

 setafer is from Nipal and Bhutan. 



427«. AcTiNODURA Waldeni, God win- Austen. 



Described P. Z. S. for 1874, with figure by Smit., it is thus described. 



Head full crested, extending back for more than an inch, hairy grey 

 edged pale ; back rich brown, with a greenish hue, becoming more rufous on 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts ; base of tail feathers chesnut, for half their 

 length narrowly barred with black, then black for terminal inch, the three 

 outer tipped white ; quills black, outer web chesnut at base, then barred 

 with black, and the narrow terminal portion grey ; primary coverts black, 

 the winglet feathers grey, barred black ; ear coverts hoary ; side of head hair 

 grey ; chin, breast, and abdomen rufous brown, paler on chin and throat, the 

 whole having a streaky appearance, the feathers being centered with a 

 darker shade. 



Bill grey ; legs and feet fleshy brown ; irides pale grey. 



L. 8-0", W. 3-48", T. 3 45", t. 1-2", Bf. 0-62". 



I first shot this bird on the peak of Japvo at about 9000 feet on the 

 Burrail range, Naga Hills. It keeps to the tops of the forest trees. 



