IANTHOCINCLA. 1537/ 
Colours of soft parts. Iris pale buffish yellow to orange-yellow ; 
lids pale lavender, edged dusky ; bill horny-brown, tipped paler 
and with whole lower mandible pale horny-yellow ; legs and feet 
pale dull fleshy. 
Measurements. Total length 225 to 235 mm.; wing 86 to 
89 mm.; tail about 100 mm. ; tarsus about 32 mm.; culmen about 
20 min. 
Distribution. Naga Hills, Khasiaand N. Cachar Hills, Manipur, 
Lushai and Chin Hills. Does not apparently extend eastwards 
to Lakhimpur. 
Nidification. Numerous nests were taken by Col. Tytler in the 
Naga Hills in May and June and by Messrs. Mackenzie, Hopwood 
and others in the Chin Hills in March and April. They are com- 
posed of ferns, leaves, roots and grass, lined with finer roots and 
often bound round with tendrils and stems of plants; they are 
rather more compact than most nests of this group and are placed 
in bushes or small saplings in forest. The eges are generally 
two only in number, sometimes three; the texture is very fine 
and close and the surface smooth and silky to the touch, not hard 
and glossy as in D. ruficollis. In colour they are pure unspotted 
blue-green. 150 eggs average 25°3 x 18°6 mm. 
Habits. This is not a very gregarious bird, and though it may 
sometimes be found in small tamily parties, it ore often wanders 
about in pairs, scratching on the ground amongst the fallen 
rubbish for insects or clambering through the undergrowth and 
bracken. It constantly utters conversational notes, some sweet 
and some harsh, but never breaks out into a paroxysm of sound 
like some of the other Laughing-Thrushes do. It haunts 
elevations of 6,000 feet upwards and is rare below 5,000 feet. 
\ (142) Tanthocincla cineracea styani. 
Styan’s Lauguine-Turvusu. 
Trochalopterum styanit Oustalet, Bull. Mus. Par., 6, p. 226 (1898) 
(Ta-tsien-lu), 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. This race differs from the preceding in having 
the head dark ashy instead of black and the ear-coverts rufous 
instead of black and white. The upper plumage is browner and 
the breast is tinged with vinous. 
Colours of soft parts as in J. ¢. cineracea. 
Measurements. Wing 94 to 98 mm.; tail 106 to 118 mm.:; 
tarsus about 38 mm.; culmen 22 to 25 mm. 
Distribution. Yunnan and the E. Shan States. 
Nidification. A single egg from the Styan collection measures 
28°1 x 19°38 mm. 
Habits. Not reeorded. 
