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no means shy, retiring birds, and are generally very inquisitive, 

 liking to know what has disturbed them, when they dash off and 

 start a jovial sort of laughing concert, one bird generally singing a 

 solo whilst the others join in with a laughing accompaniment. 



Burmese name for all Laughing Thrushes — Way-oung-hnet. 



THE WHITE-GRESTED LAUGHING-THRUSH 



Are the noisiest, and h?.ve probably from their hilarious and 

 unseem'y conduct, given a name to the whole family, many of which 

 are of a very retiring disposition. They are plentiful in mOr.t suitable 

 localities, generally found in all well-wooded parts ot the country, 

 but do not ascend the hills to any height. They are especially 

 common in the jungles round Rangoon. And are laree brown 

 birds aboout eleven inches in length, and have conspicuous white- 

 crested heads, the upper parts of the body brown, the lower parts 

 white edged with grown. There is no mistaking the species when 

 once seen or heard as they are extremely noisy. 



There are two varieties of this bird, the first being the Himalayan, 

 which is found in th? north down to Bhamo, and on the v^estern side 

 and hills of Banna, and the se.ond is the Burmese which is found 

 round Kangoon and up the eastern side, There is a third variety 

 which is found in th^ extreme east and south and is the Siamese 

 one. The only differeace is in the amount of white and brown of 

 their under parts. 



They build large cup-shape J n3sts which are generally placed in 

 a bush or clump of bamboos, and lay three or four pure white glossy 

 eg:,s. 1 may add here th it the birds of this familv nearly all lay 

 pure white, or spotless b'ue, or gre?n'sh eggs, only a few of the 

 rarer ores laying spotted eggs, 



Burmese mme—Way-oung-hnd-goung hyu. 

 No. 69. Garrulax leucolophus. The Himalayan White crested 



Laughing Thrush 



No. 70. Giirrulax G. belangeri. The Buimese White-cre:>ted 



Laughing Thrush. 



No. 71. Gar.ulax G. diardi. The Siamese White-creited 



Laughing Thrush. 



THE BLACK-GORGETED LAUGHING THRUSH 



Is the largest of th? family, audi? about the size of an English 

 Missel-thrush. It is a bird of the low hills, and is found round 

 Rangoon, it o.tea consorts with the white-crested species and is 

 almost as noisy. In length about thirteen inches. Upper parts 

 olive-brown, a broad collar at the back of the neck bright chestnut, 

 a whitish coloured eye-b.-ow witii black edges, the black being 

 continued round the cheeks and down the neck to the breast, forming 

 a black gorget, from which it gets its name ; chin white and lower 



