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above it. The lores and whole crown to nape are dusky brown; 
the chin is nearly white and the centre of the abdomen also is 
white. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris dark red; bill black; legs dusky 
{ Bourdillon), 
Measurements about the same as fairbanki, 
Distribution. North Travancore; there are specimens in the 
British Museum from Chinnipanni, the Patnas, Mynall and the 
Tinnevally boundary, and Mr. J. Stewart obtained it at the 
pean kayel? on the Ghats, 
Actodyra Rove le : 
idification. Mr. J. Stewart appears to be the only collector 
who has seen the nest of this bird. He describes it as just like 
most nests of cachinnans; it was taken at about 3,000 feet. The 
eggs are more Thrush-like than are those of any other of the South 
Indian Laughing-Thrushes, and might be matched in colour by 
many eggs of Merula sinullima, The ground-colour is a very pale 
blue-green, and the markings consist of rather numerous blotches, 
smears and spots of reddish brown, mostly on the larger end, 
where in one egg they form a dense ring. The three eggs average 
about 25-5 x 19'lmm. Lexpect these eggs are somewhat abnormal 
in coloration. 
Habits. Those of the preceding bird. 
(170) Trovhalopterum virgatum. 
Tue Manipur STREAKED LauGHINnG-THRUSH. 
Trochalopteron virgatum Godw.-Aust., P. Z.S., 1874, p. 46 (Razami, 
Naga Hills); Blanf. & Oates, 1, p. 100. 
Vernacular names. Dao-phéré (Cachari). 
Description. Point of the forehead and a long supercilium 
extending to the nape white; lores ferruginous; cheeks, lower 
part of ear-coverts and under the eye fulvous-white ; upper part 
of ear-coverts ferruginous, with pale shaft-streaks ; crown, nape, 
mantle, lesser wing-coverts and sides of the neck reddish brown, 
with very white shafts; lower back, scapulars, rump and upper 
tail-coverts ashy-brown, with white shafts ; tail olive-brown, dis- 
tinctly cross-rayed ; the outer feathers tipped with white; greater 
wing-coverts chestnut, with white shafts and tips ; primary-coverts 
pale rufous, with white shafts and brown tips; winglet deep ashy, 
with the outer webs white along the shafts; wings ashy; the 
middle feathers washed with chestnut and the inner secondaries 
edged with paler ashy; chin and throat deep chestnut, shading 
off into yellowish-buff on the remainder of the lower plumage, all 
the feathers with white shafts. 
Colours of soft parts. Legs and feet pale horny or fleshy, the 
soles paler and more yellow ; bill dark brown, paler at the gape; 
iris hazel-prown ; orbital skin dusky plumbeous. 
Measurements. Length about 250 mm.; wing 85 to 89 mm. ; 
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