ACTINODURA RAMSAYL

Ramsay’s Barwine..

Actmura ramsayi, Wald. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, xv. p. 402 (1875).—Hume, Stray Feathers, iii.
p. 404 (1875).—Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 464, pl. xiii—id. Orn. Works of Marquis of
Tweeddale, p. 415.

Actinodura ramsayi, Hume, Stray Feathers, 1879, p. 97.

 

Ramsay's Barwing was discovered by the gentleman after whom it is named, in the hills of Karen-nee, in
Burmah, at a place called Kyai-pho-gyee. He states that he found it frequenting the jungle-covered
mountain-streams in the open country of Karen-nee, at an elevation of about 3000 feet, but he did not
subsequently meet with it.

The species is a very distinct one, easily recognizable by its ochraceous coloration ; and I add here-
with the original description given by the late Marquis of Tweeddale.

«¢ Under surface from chin to vent clear ochreous buff, somewhat darker on the chin and throat; upper
surface cinereous olive; forehead almost ferruginous; crown and crest, with the nape, like the back, but
tinged with ferruginous ; most of the dorsal feathers traversed by faint, yet distinct, narrow dark brown
bands or lines, which on the upper tail-coverts are more closely set together and very conspicuous; lores
and cheeks dark brown, almost black ; sides of the head behind the eyes and some of the lateral crest-plumes
without any ferruginous tinge; eyelids white; primaries narrowly barred with black on their outer
, also the minor coverts ; all the rectrices olive-brown, like the tertiaries, and

ashy,
webs up to their insertion
barred with numerous well-defined narrow black bands ; all but middle pair broadly tipped with

distinctly
er tailecoverts and flanks somewhat darker than remainder of under surface. Wing 3°50 inches,

white ; und
tarsus 1°12, tail 5; bill from forehead 0°87.” : ,

Captain Wecalaw Ramsay has given the soft parts of the species as follows :—‘ Iris light hair-brown, bill
horny brown, legs slaty brown.”

In the Plate I have given a life-sizec
me by Captain Wardlaw Ramsay.

1 illustration of the male and female, drawn from the typical pair lent to