182 TIMALIIDjE. 



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 Turdoides. 



(173) Trochalopterum lineatum gilgit. 

 THE GILGIT STREAKED LAUGHING-THRUSH. 



lanthocincla lineatum gilyit Hartert, Vog. 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. 



(174) Trochalopterum lineatum ziaratensis. 

 THE BALUCHISTAN STREAKED LAUGHING-THRUSH. 



lanthocincla lineatum ziaratensis Ticehurst, Bull. B. O. C., xli, 

 p. 55 (1920) (Ziarat). 



Vernacular names. None recorded. 



Description. Differs from "/. I. 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, riot red-brown; the golden-brown 

 edges to the wings and tail are also somewhat paler. It lacks the 

 white-ticked throat which /. I. gilgit has." 



Colours of soft parts and Measurements as in T. I. lineatum. 



Nidification. Two eggs from Quetta measure 26-1x18-7 mm. 

 The nest was said to have been placed in scrub growing in a 

 ravine 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 parts. 



