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in May but others also in late April and throughout June. The 
nest isa typical Laughing-Thrush’s nest, a large, shallow and rather 
untidy cup, but more tendrils are used in its construction than 1 
have noticed in the nests of others of the genus. It is generally 
built in dense forest, and may be placed in bushes or in saplings 
between 3 and 20 feet from the ground. The eggs are two or three 
in number, rather long ovals, more smooth and glossy than the 
eges of most of its genus, but less so than those of Dryonastes 
ruficollis ete. They vary in colour from pure white to pale blue- 
green, and 100 eggs average 29°2x 20°5 mm. The extremes in 
measurement are 31°0x19°8; 29:0x21'7; 25°5x19°6 and 27°8 
19:2 mm. 
Habits. This is a Laughing-Thrush of rather high elevations, 
seldom under 3,500 and hardly ever below 2,000 feet, even in winter, 
though a straggler was obtained at Lakhimpur in Cachar, practically 
in the plains. It is a less noisy, less gregarious bird than many 
of its nearest relations and keeps much to dense forest rather than 
to scrub. It has a loud, rather sweet whistle in addition to the 
usual cackling notes of its kind. 
(137) Garrulax albogularis albogularis. 
THe WHITE-rHROATED LavGHING-THRUSH. 
Tanthocinela albcgularis Gould, P. Z.S., 1885, p. 187 (Nepal). 
Garrulax albigularis. Blanf, & Oates, i, p. 82. 
Vernacular names. Karriam-pho (Lepcha). 
Description. Forehead fulvous: lores and feathers above and 
below eye black; cheeks, chin and throat white; upper plumage 
rich olive-brown, tinged with fulvous on the crown and ear-coverts 
and rusty on the upper tail-coverts ; wings brown, edged with the 
colour of the back; tail olive-brown, the four outer puirs of 
feathers very broadly tipped with white: sides of neck and a broad 
pectoral band olive-brown ; remainder of lower plumage bright 
ferruginous. 
Colours of soft parts. Bill black or dull black, inside of mouth 
yellow; legs, feet and claws pale fleshy piumbeous to darker livid 
plumbeoys ; iris greyish blue. 
Measurements. Length about 300 to 310 mm.; wing 123 to 
133 mm., average 128 mm.; tail 140 to 145 mm.; tarsus about 
43 mm.; culmen about 25 mm. 
Distribution. Nepal and Sikkim, but not in Bhutan or Assam, 
except twice in the Barail Range in N. Cachar. 
Nidification. The only nest recorded is one taken by myself in 
N. Cachar. Neither nest nor eggs differ in any way from those of 
the next and better known form. 
Habits. Similar to those of the next bird. 
