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nest was placed against the side of a tree three feet from the ground, and of 

 the usual type, made of bamboo leaves lined with roots; measured 4|"x6^" 

 outside and 3"x35" inside. I also got two other nests of the same descrip- 

 tion, securing the birds. 



Eggs. — Lays two or three glossless white eggs spotted with dark red, with 

 underlying purple spots very like those of an oriole, and quite different from 

 any other Laughing Thrushes' eggs that I have seen. Average of eight eggs 

 M3X-82 ; largest l-3x-8, smallest I'OTx'S. 



*(87rt) Trochalopterum ripponi , Gates. — (Rippon's Laughing Thrush.) 

 Bull : B. O. C, Vol. XI., page 10. 



Kachin name. — Krang-sheng-maling (Krang-sheng for both T. Sliarpei and 

 T. Rippo7ii.) 



'' Allied to T. phimiceum from the Himalayas, but differing from that 

 species in many important points. The crimson of the head is much brighter 

 and extends to the whole of the sides of the head, the supercilium, forehead, 

 chin and cheeks, even tinging the throat. The latter, together with the whole 

 lower plumage, is greyish -yellow not fulvous-olive-brown. The whole crown 

 is dark plumbeous and the remainder of the upper plumage with the wing- 

 coverts is olive-grey. The tail feathers are not tipped with orange, but more 

 narrowly with ochraceous, the lower aspect of the outer feathers alone being 

 orange." 



Wing 3-4, tail 4, tarsus 1-3. 



Nesting. — Fairly common, noisy, and a great skulker. It builds the usual 

 type of nest, either in the thorny bush, bamboo or small sapling, from three to 

 five feet from the ground, and lays three eggs similar to those of T. Pham- 

 cium being blue spotted and streaked with dark red. Average of six eggs 

 1-01 X '75, largest IM x-72, smallest l'Ox-76. 



'-(92) Trochalopterum squamatdm, (Gould). — (The Blue- winged 

 Laughing Thrusii.) 

 Kachin name. — Wo-krang-krang-frong, the same as D. laurietisis. 

 Decidedly rare, and fond of valleys covered with dense jungle. On the 

 30th April I found a nest of this bird, containing three eggs, and shooting the 

 parent bird. The nest was placed in an over-hanging bush on the side of a 

 deep valley, and was of the usual type. 



Eggs. — My eggs are much smaller and of a paler shade than those I have 

 from Assam, measuring — 



1-09 X -84 



1-04 X -81 



1-05 X -81 

 (104) Argya earlii, (Blyth).--(The Streaked Babbler.) 

 Common round Bhamo near the banks ot the river, especially so in the grass 



and wild-rose jungle at the bottom of the polo ground, where it breeds during 



May. 



