to ' The Birds of India: 303 



409 bis. Garrulax gularis (M'Clelland), P. Z. S. 1839, 

 p. 159. 



Gould, B, Asia, pt. xix. pi. 15. 



Description. — Head and nape dark fuliginous ashy ; throat, 

 cheeks, and upper breast lemon-colour ; chin, lores, streak below 

 the eyes, including the ear-coverts, and a small tuft of feathers 

 on the sides of the mandible near the gape black ; upper plumage 

 cinnamon-brown, brightest on the upper tail-coverts ; lower 

 breast pale lemon-colour, clouded with ashy ; sides of the breast 

 fuliginous ashy, not so dark as the head; abdominal region, 

 under tail-coverts, and under wing-coverts bright ferruginous, 

 deepening into mahogany on the flanks ; the two middle pairs 

 of rectrices rich brown, with a broad terminal band of dark 

 brown ; remaining pairs uniform bright ferruginous ; legs and 

 nares in dried specimens yellow ; bill horn-colour. Wing 4, 

 tail 4, tarsus 1-|, bill from nostril -|- 



Gould's figure is taken from a specimen I procured on the 

 Khasia hills in 1862. Godwin-Austen obtained one in the 

 Cachar hills. 



410. Garrulax ruficollts. 



The eggs are figured by Hodgson of a fine green colour. 



411. Garrulax albogularis. 



The lateral tail-feathers are barred with dusky, and the tips 

 white. 



412 bis. Garrulax merulinus, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 1851, p. 521. 



Description. — "General colour deep olive-brown; the median 

 part of the underparts pale rufescent whitish brown, and spotted 

 with black on the throat and upper part of the breast much as 

 in Turdus musicus ; a narrow white streak behind the eye ; 

 irides whitish brown ; bill dusky plumbeous ; legs brown, with 

 albescent toes. Length 9^ inches, expanse of wings 12, closed 

 wing 31, tail 3|, bill to gape Ij, tarsi If. Common in Chera 

 Punji.^' (Blyth, /. c.) . 



I procured this rare species on the Khasias in 1862, and have 

 not since had an opportunity of observing it. 



