182 TIMALIID A. 
Habits. This Laughing-Thrush is one of the most common 
birds about nearly all our North-West hill-stations in every kind 
of forest and jungle where there is sufficient undergrowth. It 
wanders about in pairs or small parties of four or five, constantly 
chattering and calling but, though not shy or wild, keeping much 
out of view in the thick undergrowth, where it hunts for seeds and 
insects. It is loth to take to flight but when forced to do so, the 
flock takes wing one by one, fluttering feebly to the next piece of 
cover much in the same way as do the birds of the genera Argya 
and T'urdoides, 
(173) Trochalopterum lineatum gilgit. 
THE Ginerr StrREAKED LavGaiInc-THRUSH. 
Tanthocincla lineatum gilgit Hartert, Vig. Pal., i, p. 636 (1910) 
(Gilgit). 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description, This race is still paler than the last and more grey, 
less rufous, in tint both on the upper and lower plumage. 
Distribution. Gilgit, Chitral and N. Kashmir. 
Nidification and Habits similar to those of the last bird. Two 
clutches of eggs average 24°9 x 18°5 mm. 
(17+) Trochalopterum lineatum ziaratensis. 
Tue BaALUCHISTAN STREAKED LAUGHING-THRUSH. 
Lanthocincla lineatum ziaratensis Ticehurst, Bull. B. O. C., xli, 
p. 55 (1920) (Ziarat). 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Differs from “JZ. 1. gilgit in having much paler rusty, 
not chestnut, ear-coverts; grey, not olive-brown, rump and tail- 
coverts, and grey, not grey-brown, belly; the markings on the 
breast paler and yellower, not red-brown; the golden-brown 
edges to the wings and tail are also somewhat paler. It lacks the 
white-ticked throat which J. 1. gilgit has.” 
Colours of soft parts and Measurements as in 7. J. lineatum. 
Nidification. ‘I'wo eggs from Quetta measure 26-1 x18°7 mm. 
The nest was said to have been placed in scrub growing in a 
rayine on an otherwise bare and stony hill. 
Habits. Apparently is often found in the low scrub-jungle 
which grows here and there in the ravines in the hills, as well as 
in the better wooded paris. 
