168 TIMALIID A. 
(155) Trochalopterum erythrocephalum ramsayi. 
Toe Karennt Rep-HEApDED LAvuGHING-THRUSH. 92. 
Trochalopterum ramsayi Ogilvie-Grant, Bull. B. O. C., xiv, p. +9 
(1904) (KKarennee). 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Differs from the last bird in having the chestnut 
of the chin and throat continued over the entire breast and belly. 
Colours of soft parts. “Iris deep chocolate; bill black; legs 
pinkish brown.” 
Measurements. Total length about 254 mm.; wing 101 to 
104 mm.; tail about 114 mm.; tarsus about 40 mm.; culmen 
about 20 mm. 
Distribution. Karenni, extending to the pine-forests in the 
Salween District. 
Nidification and Habits. Nothing recorded. 
Trochalopterum pheniceum 
Key to Subspecies. 
A. Tail broadly tipped with orange. 
a. General- plumage darker .............. T. p. pheeniceum, p. 168. 
b General plumage paler: . 2. samc e eo T. p. bakeri, p. 169. 
B. Tail narrowly edged with ochraceous .... 7. p. rippont, p. 170. 
Waco pponr, 
(156) Trochalopterum pheniceum pheniceum. 
Tue ASSAM CRIMSON-WINGED LAUGHING-THRUSH. 
Lanthocincla phenicea Gould, Icon. Av., pl. 8 (1837) (Nepal). 
Trochalopterum pheniceum. Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 93. 
Vernacular names. Z%/ji-pho (Lepcha); Repcha (Bhut.). 
Description. Lores, cheeks, ear-coverts, round the eye and a 
patch on the side of the neck crimson ; a short supercilium black ; 
upper plumage olive-brown, the feathers of the crown with 
partially concealed black margins; tail black, broadly tipped with 
orange and outermost feathers washed with orange throughout ; 
wing-coverts olive-brown; primary-coverts dusky edged with 
olive-brown; winglet suffused with crimson on the outer webs 
and outermost coverts edged with the same; outer. webs of 
primaries edged with crimson and yellow, the former increasing 
and latter decreasing in extent inwards; secondaries with centre 
of outer webs edged blue, the terminal portions suffused with 
crimson, the bases with olive-green; the whole lower plumage 
fulvous olive-brown, tinged with ashy on the abdomen; under 
tail-coverts black, broadly tipped with crimson. 
