EE TIMALIID &. 
handsome eggs as those of the erythrocephalum group. Eight eggs 
average 28°5 x 20°D mm. 
Habits. Similar to those of other Laughing-Thrushes, but 
perhaps they are rather more often seen frequenting low trees as 
well as undergrowth. It is found between 4,000 and 8,000 feet. 
(163) Trochalopterum variegatum simile. 
THE WESTERN VARIEGATED LAUGHING-THRUSH. 
Trochalopteron simile ne, Ibis, 1871, p. 408 (Far N.W. Gilgit) ; 
Blant. & Oates, i, p. £ 
Vernacular names. None sf eciere 
Description. Differs from the Hastern form in having the outer 
webs of the wing-feathers slaty blue and in having the yellow on 
the tail replaced with the same slaty-blue. 
Colours of soft parts. Legs and feet flesh-colour; bill black ; 
iris brown (Dr. G. Hendersou). 
Measurements as in the last bird. 
Distribution. The Western portion of Kashmir and_ the 
Hazara country. Very common in the galis round about Murree 
and Naini-l'al, extends up the Gilgit Valley above Gilgit and up 
to the frontier of Afghanistan. 
Nidification. Breeds very commonly from Murree south-west- 
wards, being found up to some 10,000 feet and down to 5,000 feet. 
The nest is a big cup with very thick walls composed of grass, 
leaves, fine twigs and roots, lined with the latter, and measuring 
anything from 5 to 9 inches in diameter by 5 or 6 deep. The 
internal cup is about 4 by 22 inches deep. It is usually 
placed well up in a fir, deodar or other tree, sometimes as high 
as 25 feet and seldom low down in bushes. The eggs number 
three or four, rarely five, and are like those of the last bird, but 
generally more blotched or spotted and less freckled. Fifty eggs 
average 27°8 x 21:0 mm. 
The breeding season is from the beginning of May to the end 
of June. 
Habits. This Laughing-Thrush, like the last,is much more of a 
tree bird than most others of the genus, and will be found quite 
-as often hunting for insects well up in the trees as low down 
in the undergrowth and bushes. It is found up to at least 
10,000 feet, and possibly higher, and in winter descends to 
about 4,000 feet. 
(164) Trochalopterum squamatum. 
Tur BLUE-WINGED LAUGHING-THRUSH. 
Ianthocincla squamata Gould, P. Z.S., 1835, p. 48 (Himalayas, 
Sikkim). 
Trochalopterum squamatum. Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 96. 
Vernacular names. Z'armal-pho (Lepcha); Nabom (Bhut.); 
Wo-kvrang-krang-mut (Kachin). 
