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306 Description. Upper plumage ashy olive-brown, tinged with ferruginous on the head and more so on the forehead, the feathers of the back, rump and upper tail-coverts faintly cross-barred with black; lores dusky; a conspicuous ring of white round the eye; sides of head ashy; primary-coverts black; inner secondaries and other wing-coverts olive-brown, distinctly barred with black; outer webs of primaries and outer secondaries chestnut on the basal, ashy on the terminal halves, barred with black; tail olive-brown, distinctly barred with numerous narrow black bars, the bars increasing in width on the outer feathers; all the tail-feathers tipped with white; whole lower plumage ochraceous buff, becoming browner on the under tail-coverts.

Colours of soft parts. Iris light hair-brown; bill horny-brown; legs slaty-brown (Wardlaw-Ramsay).

Measurements. Total length 230 to 240 mm.; wing 86 to 90 mm.; tail about 120 to 130 mm.; tarsus about 28 mm.; culmen about 18 mm.

Distribution. The Southern Shan States and Karenni.

Nidification unknown.

Habits. Rippon records of this bird in the Shan States : " The habits of this bird are very like those of Leioptila casta aoptera; it hops rapidly from branch to branch, frequently uttering its call. The call of L. castanoptera is three notes in the minor in a descending scale, preceded by a flourish; that of A. ramsayi is the same without the flourish."' It is found in heavy forest or brushwood between 3,000 and 5,000 feet elevation.


 * Actinodura raniHii/i radcliff'ei Ilarington, Bull. B. O. C, xiii, p. 9 (1910) (Ruby :NIiues).

Vernacular names. None recorded.

Description. " Differs froui A. ramsayi in having the fore part of the head and crest darker ferruginous, the general colour of the upper parts ochraceous; the abdomen is conspicuously white, and the feathers of the throat have rather conspicuous shaft-streaks."

Colours of soft parts. " Iris brown; bill dark brown; legs pale brown."

Measurements. " Total length about 246 mm.; culmen 20 mm.; wing 91"4 mm,; tail 127 mm.; tarsus 30.5 mm."

Distribution. "The type, the only specimen obtained, was shot by Col. H, Delme-Kadcliffe in the lluby Mines District, Upper Burma."

Nidification and Habits unknown.