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' Above streaked, the general colour being dark chesnut-brown and ashy, 

 the margins of the feathers being of the latter coloured ; rump and upper 

 tail- coverts more uniform ashy-brown, the central streaks being not so marked; 

 wing-coverts coloured like the back, except the bastard-wing feathers which are 

 dusky-brown edged with ashy ; primary-coverts uniform brown ; quills brown, 

 the primaries slightly margined with ashy, the inner secondaries more rufous- 

 brown, and with plainer ashy margins ; tail olivaceous-brown, with indistinct 

 cross-bars under certain lines ; crown of head chestnut-brown, nape and sides 

 of neck streaked like the back, but the edges of the feathers rather clearer and 

 more hoary-grey ; lores and feathers in front of the eye fulvous-brown ; ear- 

 coverts, as well as a tolerably broad eye-brow, hoary-white spotted or streaked 

 with dark-brown ; cheeks blackish (very dark-chestnut '?) the hinderpart mot- 

 tled with chestnut-brown edged with hoary-white ; throat and undersurface 

 of body buffy- white, a little purer on the breast and abdomen; the fore neck 

 and breast streaked with nearly obsolete shaft lines of black ; the sides of the 

 breast and flanks broadly streaked with chestnut, relieved by a black streak 

 down the centre of the feathers; sides of vent and thighs brown with dusky 

 streaks ; under tail-coverts more fulvescent with dusky-brown centres ; under 

 wing-coverts fulvous-brown streaked with chestnut ; quills ashy-biown below 

 strongly washed with pale rufous along the inner web ; bill lu'own, feet and 

 claws grey, iris pale yellow." (David). 



Total length 10-8 inches, culmen 1-05, wing 3*75, tail 5, tarsus 1*5. 



(85) Tkochalopterum nkirimentum, Hodgs.— (The Western Yellow- 

 winged Laughing Thrush.) 



Recorded by Col. Rippon. 

 *(86a) Trochalopterum Suarpei, Ripp. — (Sharpe's Lajghing Thrush.) 



Bull : B. 0. C, Vol. XII, page 13. 



(Trans.) " Similar to T. mllnei, but with the cheeks pale-grey and less 

 white." 



Length 11-5, culmen 1-2, wing 4-1, tail 4-7, tarsus I'o, 



Orbital skin blue, 



Kaclun name. — Wo-krang-krang-sheng, and Krang-sheng-kaba. 



Trochalopterum milnei, David. Cat. of Birds, voL vii, p. 372. 



■' Adult male : crown of head and upper part of neck of a buffy-rufous colour : 

 ear-coverts pure white : throat and lores black ; back olive, with the large 

 feathers edged with a dark border ; rump and upper tail-coverts of a golden-olive 

 tint ; lower parts ashy-olive passing to greenish on the neck, breast, flanks, 

 under tail-coverts and tibial plumes ; upper surface of the taU bright red, lower 

 surface blackish ; quills above brilliant and glossy red with the inner webs of 

 the innermost secondaries white ; bill and feet black ; iris brown. (David and 

 Oustelet). 



Adult female like the male." 



A very handsome bird, but a great skulker, fond of dense secondary jungle. 



Nesting.— On the 29th April I found one nest containing three eggs. Tin- 

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