80 TIMELIID>E. 



blackish spots succeeded by a paler fringe; lower back, rump, upper tail 

 coverts, tertiaries and tail, where not tinged with golden, pale greenish olive 

 grey ; tail feathers tinged and margined on their outer webs with a somewhat 

 olivaceous golden ; outer webs of primaries and secondaries the same but 

 brighter ; secondary and tertiary coverts rich maroon chestnut ; the median 

 and lesser coverts paler and mingled with yellow. Legs and feet fleshy 

 brown; bill blackish brown ; irides grey. (Hume.) 



Length. 10*3 inches; bill from gape 1*07; wing 3-7; tail 4-5; tarsus 1*5 

 (ex.. Sharpe). 



Hab. Eastern Munipur Hills. 



514. Trochalopterum melanostigma (Biyth\ Sharpe, Cat. B. 



Br. Mus. vii. p. 364 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 39. Trochalopteron melano- 

 stigma, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 268 ; id. B. Burm. p. 108 ; Wardlaw- 

 Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 464 ; Hume and Davison, Sir. F. vi. p. 291 ; Hume, 

 Sir. F. viii. p. 96. The CHESTNUT-HEADED LAUGHING THRUSH. 



Base of the forehead, lores, cheeks and chin black ; a short supercilium, ear 

 coverts and sides of the nape silvery grey^ the feathers black shafted; the whole 

 top of the head contracting to a point on the nape bright chestnut ; back, 

 rump, lesser wing coverts and the tail coverts olive brown, tinged with ochra- 

 ceous on the back ; greater wing coverts olive brown tipped with ferruginous; 

 primary coverts black ; wings olive yellow on the outer webs, dark brown on 

 the inner ; tail dusky, the outer webs olive yellow ; throat chestnut, the 

 remainder of under surface reddish brown or ochraceous red, shading off 

 into paler on the sides of the neck, breast and middle of abdomen ; sides of 

 the abdomen, flanks and under tail coverts olive grey ; under wing coverts 

 light reddish, except the lower series, which are dusky. Bill black ; legs, feet 

 and claws pinkish brown ; irides brown. 



Length. 9 to i0'5 inches; wing 4*2 ; tail 4*2; tarsus i'5 ; culmen I. 



The female is a little larger. 



Hab. Karen Hills in Burmah, extending into Tennasserim. (Sharpe.) 



The Chestnut-headed Laughing Thrush was discovered by Col. Tickell on 

 Mooleyit at an elevation of 7,500 feet. Mr. Davison met with it on the 

 same mountain, and also procured specimens in the pine forests of the Salween 

 River. Capt. W. Ramsay also observed it both in the Karen Hills and in 

 Karennee. Davison says the bird keeps in parties of 6 or 8, feeds chiefly 

 on the ground, and keeps much in the brushwood. 



515. Trochalopterum rufigulare (Gould), Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. 



Mus. viii. p. 365. lanthocincla rufogularis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 48 ; 

 Bp. Consp. i. p. 371. Cinclosoma rufimenta, Hodgs. Asiat. Res. xix. p. 148. 

 Garrulax rufogularis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 951. Trochalopteron rufi- 

 gulare, Gray, Cat. Mamm., fyc., Nepaul y Coll. Hodgs. p. 84 ; Jerd. B. Ind. \\. 

 p. 47; Hume. Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 261; id. Sir. F. 1878, p. 156; 



