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on the top of the breast ; beneath, the chin is white ; the neck, 

 throat, breast, and sides of the abdomen, very pale fulvous, in some 

 bright rusty throughout, except on the middle of the lower 

 abdomen, sometimes white on the throat and breast ; the rest of the 

 body beneath, Avhite. 



Bill bluish horny, dusky above ; legs greenish plumbeous ; 

 irides brown; orbitar skin dusky leaden. Length 13 inches; 

 extent 16^; wing 5|; tail 5^; bill at front 1|-; tarsus 1^. 



This species varies a good deal (according to the locality) in 

 the markings on the ear-coverts, which in some are black, in 

 others white mixed with black ; and in some the pectoral band is 

 obsolete. Specimens from the Himalayas have usually the ears 

 silver-grey, whilst those from Arrakan have them black and grey in 

 every gradation. It is found in the Himalayas, extending through 

 Assam into Burmah. 



Bonaparte, in his Conspectus, gives G. uropygialis, Cabanis, 

 from Assam, as distinct from this, * the wings of a duller shade, 

 and the rump rufescent, not concolorous with the body. ' It 

 does not appear to me to differ. 



413. Garrulax moniliger, Hodgson. 



Cinclosoma, apud Hodgson, As. Res. XIX. — Blyth, Cat. 486 — 

 HoRSF., Cat. 289 — lanthoc. pectoralis, apud McLellanD— Garr. 

 McLellandi, Blyth — Ol-pho, LcTpch.—Piang-kani, Bhot. 



The Neck-laced Laughing-thrush. 



Descr. — Very like the last ; above pale olive-brown ; the whole 

 neck and throat rusty ; the lateral tail feathers with a double band 

 of black and white, but the white much less broad than in the 

 last; the rest of the body beneath white, more or less tinged with 

 rusty on the breast. Hanks, and middle of the abdomen ; a white 

 supercilium from the bill to the occiput ; below it a black line 

 proceeding from the bill, through the eyes and ear-coverts (which 

 are black, more or less mixed with white or grey), and sweeping 

 round the bottom of the breast like a necklace. 



Bill dusky horny ; legs fleshy grey ; irides yellow, or pale 

 brownish, or orange ; orbitar skin evanescent. Length 1 1 i inches ; 

 wing 5^ ; tail 5 ; bill at front 1 ; tarsus 1 h. 



