140 TIMALIID ®, 
very tame and confiding. They keep generally below 2,000 feet 
and are most common in the low foot-hills and adjoiming plains, 
but they are also found up to 4,000 feet. 
(121) Dryonastes nuchalis. . 
Ociy’s Laveuine-THrusH. 
Garrulax nuchalis Godw.-Aust., A. M. N. H., (4) xviii, p. 411 (1876) 
(Dibrugarh, Assam). 
Dryonastes nuchalis. Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 74. 
Vernacular names. Pak-chi-loka (Trans-Dikku Nagas). 
Description. Forehead, upper portion of cheeks and round the 
eye black; crown and nape slate-grey; a few pointed white 
feathers in front of the crown; hind neck and upper back 
chestnut ; remaining upper plumage olive-brown, the outer webs 
of the quills tinged with paler grey and tips of tail-feathers broadly 
black ; lower parts of cheeks, ear-coverts and sides of neck white ; 
chin and throat black; breast light ashy; remainder of lower 
plumage olive-brown. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris blood-red to brick-red; bill black ; 
legs and feet pale fleshy or fleshy-grey, toes the same or a shade 
darker. 
Measurements. Total length about 135 mm.; wing 106 to 
112 mm.; tail about 110 mm.; culmen about 26 mm. 
Distribution. Hills South of the Brahmapntra from Naogang 
to the extreme east of Lakhimpur from the foot-hills up to some 
3,000 feet. This Laughing-Thrush probably does not occur in 
Manipur, certainly not in the Cachar Hills adjoining. 
Nidification. Ogle’s Laughing-Thrush has so far only been 
found breeding by Dr. Coltart and later by myself round about 
Margherita in the extreme east of the Assam Valley. It is a com- 
mon bird in the higher foot-hills from about 500 feet up to about 
3,000 feet during the breeding season, which is from April to 
June. The nest is like that of the Rufous-necked Laughing- 
Thrush but bigger and more massive. It is generally placed in 
serub-jungle in ravines or broken country. The eggs number two 
or three and are a rather darker blue than the eggs of the last 
bird and not so glossy as a rule, though one set of pure white 
eges taken by Dr. Coltart are very highly glossed. Forty eggs 
average about 28°5 x 20°7 mm. 
Habits. At present there is nothing recorded about this bird, 
but from what we saw of it at Margherita it differs little from 
the rest of the genus. Perhaps not quite so noisy as ruficollis, 14 
indulges in much the same games of follow-my-leader through 
scrub- and bamboo-jungle, each bird every now and then clambering 
up to the top of a bush and shouting loudly to the others, who 
in turn emulate both his climbing feats and his cackling laugh, 
