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A TENTATIVE LIST OF THE VERTEBRATES OF THE 

 JALPAIGURI DISTRICT, BENGAL. 



BY 



Chas. M. Inglis, m. b. o. u., W. L. Travers, H. V. O'Donel 



AND E. 0. ShEBBEARE, I. F. S. 



Part II {With a Flats, Map and text-hlock.) 

 {Continued from page 825 of Volume XXV2). 

 BIRDS. 



Jungle-Crow (4), Corvus macrorhynchus. — The common crow found in the 



forests. 

 Indian House-Crow (7), Corvus splendens. — Common, but only found in the 



bazaars and r ever in the forest. 

 Green Magpie (14), Cissa chinensis. — Fairly plentiful and met with in large 



flocks, also singly. 

 Indian Tree-pie (16), Dendrocitta rufa. — Very common. 

 Himalayan Tree-pie (18), Dendrocitta himulayensis. —Gommon in the hilly 



portion of the district ; also occurs in fewer numbers in the plains. 



O'Donel has taken nests 9 miles from the hills. 

 Indian Grey Tit (31), Farm atriceps.—Yevy common. 

 Green-backed Tit. (34), Farus monticola. — Common round Buxa. 

 Yellow-billed Crow-Tit (51), Faradoxornis flavirostris. — Recorded from the 



" Bhutan Terai " ; so far not observed by us. 

 Larger Red-headed Crow-Tit (52), Psittiparus ruficeps .—Inghs got this at 



Buxa early in March. There was a small party in some undergrowth. 

 [Hoary-headed Crow-Tit (61), Fsittiparus gularis yularis. — Probably occurs 



above Buxa.] 

 Riifous-necked Laughing-Thrush (62), Dryonastesruficollis. — The commonest 



Laughing-Thrush in the district. 

 Himalayan White-crested Laughing-Thrush (69), Garrulax leucolophus leuco- 



lophus. — Very common in the hills and also found in the plains at 



their base. 

 Biack-gorgeted Laughing-Thrush (72), Garrulax pectoralis.—^oticeiS. in t\\Q 



plains where it keeps to the forest. 

 Necklaced Laughing-Thrush (73), Garrulax moniliger. — Fairly common, espe- 

 cially round Gorumara keeping to the forest in fairly large flocks. 

 Rufous-chinned Laughing-Thrush (80), lanthocincla rufigularis rufigularis. — 



Procured at Buxa. 

 Crimson-winged Laughing-Thrush (87), Trochalopterum phoenicium phoenicium, 



— Obtained at Buxa where they were got in the dense undergrowth. 

 Striated Laughing-Thrush (101), Gramm.atoptila striata striata.— Shot at 



Buxa where it was fairly common in the undergrowth. 

 Striated Babbler (104), Argya earZw.— Fairly common on the churs of the 



Torsa. 

 Small Rufous Babbler (109), Argya longirostris. —Common in high grass. 

 Jungle Babbler (110), Crateropus terricolor terricolor .—Y ery common. 

 Slaty-headed Scimitar Babbler (116), Pomatorhinus schisticeps schisticeps.— 



Common in scrub jungle interspersed with grass, also in the forest in 



hills and plains. 



