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GENUS GAMPSORHYNCHUS 
These birds are smallish in size. Bill like the wood shrikes, of 
moderate length, wide at the base, deep and fairly compressed, 
culmen curved and well hooked at the tip and notched; vibrisse 
developed; wings rounded; tail graduated and longish; tarsus 
fairly long and strong; claws curved. 
(384) GAMPSORHYNCHUS RUFULUS, White-headed Shrike-Thrush. 
This strange looking bird is found in warmer altitudes below Dar- 
jeeling. Biggish flocks are frequently met with in the Teesta and 
Runjeet. valleys, in particular above the suspension bridge where 
the forests are fairly thickly wooded, or scurb jungle not far off, 
They are generally seen feeding and taking a constitutional in the 
dense undergrowth. At times they are found on the land foraging 
for insects; but usually twisting and turning on slender twigs or 
like acrobats swinging on the taller wands of jungle plants.  ufulus 
is readily distinguished, even from a short distance away. In size 
itis 9 inches. This Shrike-Thrush is a somewhat aberrant form 
of Timaline. It has a moderate sized bill, wide at the base, com- 
pressed ; culmen curved, tip having a projecting shrike-like tooth 
overhanging the lower mandible; wings rounded; tail long and 
graduated ; tarsus long and strong; claws curved. Plumage is olive- 
brown; head and shoulders white; tail feathers tipped whitish ; 
beneath white tinged with ferruginous. This is a rough estimate 
of the plumage of this bird. The species before me is more richly 
coloured than usual. 
GENUS ALCIPPE 
Is much smaller in size, birds, with dull sombre colours. Bill 
short, fairly stout and compressed, culmen a little curved, hooked 
and notched ; rictal bristles serviceable ; wings rounded, of ordinary 
size; tail fairly short: tarsus moderate and stout, considering the 
general build of the bird; front toes unequal; claws curved. 
(388) ALCIPPE NIPALENSIS, Vepal Quaker-Thrush, with its plain 
and sombre, unattractive colour is apt to get overlooked, as it, in 
company with other and more taking and pleasing birds perhaps, 
hops dimurely about feeding on insects. Nevertheless its mode of 
life and general habits are quite as interesting as other birds. This 
species of Alcippe is found more frequently, a little below Darjeeling, 
where it builds its nest, effectively hidden away among low bushes 
about 3 feet from the ground. Nest is constructed of black moss, 
roots and fine grasses protected, without, by dry leaves held together 
by thread-like roots. The eggs are delicate reddish white, with a 
few rich blotches of maroon red, having a reddish haze round the 
