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BIEDS OF BRITISH BUBMAH. 
bounding one side of tlie Thoungyeen valley. Capt. "Wardlaw Bamsay 
procured this species or the preceding on the Tonghoo hills^ and I regret 
that I have neglected to examine his specimens 
The bird shot by Mr. Davison was in thin jungle largely intermixed with 
bamboo ; but the birds observed by Capt. Bingham were in dense evergreen 
forest. There is nothing more recorded of their habits. 
Genus ACTINODURA, Gould, 
43. ACTINODUEA RAMSAYI. ^ 
BAMSAY^S BAB-WING. 
Actinura rainsa3d, Wald. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, xv. p. 402 ; Wald. in Bl. B. 
Burm. p. 108 ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 464, pi. xii. ; Hume, S. F. 
iii. p. 404. Actinodura ramsayi, Hume 8f Dav. S. F.Vi.^. 293 ; Hume, S. F. 
viii. p. 97. 
Description. — Male and female. Whole upper plumage ashy brown_, 
tinged with ferruginous on the forehead, most of the feathers, especially 
the scapulars and upper tail-coverts, barred with black ; feathers round the 
eye white ; the lores dusky ; ear-coverts ashy brown ; sides of the back 
of the head and the lateral feathers of the crest ashy ; whole lower 
plumage ochraceous buff ; tail olive-brown, with numerous cross bars of 
black, the bars increasing in size towards the tips; all the tail-feathers 
tipped white ; outer webs of the primaries and secondaries ferruginous, 
barred throughout with black, inner webs brown ; tertiaries olive-brown, 
barred with black. 
Iris light hair-brown; bill horny brown ; legs slaty brown. {Wardlaw 
Ramsay.) 
Length about 9*5 inches, tail 5, wing 3*5, tarsus 1*15, bill from gape '95. 
Bamsay^s Bar-wing was procured at Kyai-pho-ghee in Karenuee by 
Capt. Wardlaw Bamsay, in jungle-covered mountain-streams, at an elevation 
of about 3000 feet. 
This species somewhat resembles A. egertoni of the Himalayas, but may 
be recognized by its barred tail. A. waldeni, from the Naga hills, is 
similar to egertoni, but is said to be smaller. A. oglii, from Assam, differs 
remarkably from all others, and possesses a white chin and supercilium. 
A. nipalensis, from the Himalayas, has the head and crest with white shaft- 
stripes. 
* Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay has, however, just informed me that all the specimens he 
procured on the Tonghoo hills are undoubtedly G. torquatus. He remarks that the colour 
of the back of the head at once serves to separate this species from G. rufulus. 
