GENERIC CHARACTERS. 



Bill, somewhat compressed, slightly arched, and indistinctly notched near the tip ; nostrils, 

 basal ; wings, short and soft, the first quill-feather the shortest, the fourth and fifth the longest ; 

 tail, long, graduated, and soft; tarsi, elongated; feet, large, the hind toe the longest; feathers, 

 soft and loose. Head, crested ; tail and wings, transversely barred. 



Sir Philip Egerton's Actinodura. 



Actinodura Egertoni, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 17. 



The specimen originally described, and from which our figure was taken, is said to be from 

 Nepal, and was presented to the Society by Sir P. Grey Egerton, Bart. Specimens have since 

 been deposited in the British Museum, by B. H. Hodgson, Esq., Corr. Memb. 



The flowers are those of the Cotton Plant of the Dukhun ( Gossypkmi Jierhaceum), rather less 

 than half their natural size, copied from one of Col. Sykes' drawings. 



The following description will serve to distinguish the species : the crest, back of the head, 

 and cheeks, are brownish grey ; the upper surface of the body is reddish olive ; the under surface 

 is pale rufous-brown ; the tail is dull rufous-brown, indistinctly barred with black and tipped with 

 white ; the wing-feathers are red at their base, and barred on their outer webs, with black and 

 grey towards their extremities ; the feathers which surround the base of the bill are brownish red. 

 Bill and feet, horn-colour. 



Total length, eight and a half inches. 



