142 TIMALIIDZ. 
tinged with ashy; tail chestnut-brown; lower parts of cheeks 
rufous-brown ; extreme point of chin black; remainder of chin, 
throat, the middle of the breast and abdomen and under tail-coverts 
white; sides of breast and abdomen ashy. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris red or red-brown ; bill horny-black, 
paler and greyer at the base; legs pale fleshy. - “* Orbital skin 
livid” (Jerdon). 
Measurements. Length about 280 mm.; wing 103 to 108mm. ; 
tail about 120 mm.; tarsus about 35 mm.; culmen about 20 mm. 
Distribution. Nepal, Sikkim, hills North of the Brahmaputra 
-and hill-ranges of North Manipur, Naga Hills to Dibrugarh, 
Fig. 27.—Head of D. c. cerulatus. 
Nidification. Breeds in Sikkim in May and June and occasion- 
ally as early as April at between 6,000 and 8,000 feet, making a 
bulky, cup-shaped nest of twigs, bamboo leaves, grass, roots and 
stems of plants, lined with finer roots and fern-rachides and placed 
in small trees or high bushes at any height between 5 and 15 feet. 
The eggs, two or three in number, are pale blue-green, very like 
those of Garrulaw moniliger, but the texture is smoother and closer 
though not nearly so hard or glossy as those of the ruficollis group. 
Fifteen eges average 30°5 x 22°] mm. 
Habits. Similar to those of the rest of the genus. This bird, 
however, is one of high altitudes, being found principally between 
-3,000 and 5,000 feet, and ascending up to 6,000 feet in summer 
and descending to about 2,000 in winter. 
(124) Dryonastes cerulatus subcerulatus. 
Tun Suintone LavGHING-THRUSH. 
Garrulax subcerulatus Hume, S. F., vii, p. 140 (1878) (Shillong). 
Dryonastes subcerulatus. Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 76. 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Similar to the last, but has the ear-coverts and 
-cheeks above and below them white, just tipped here and there 
with black; the three outermost pairs of tail-feathers are broadly 
tipped with white and the upper parts are rather paler. 
