82 TIMELllD^E. 



surface of the body isabelline buff, whiter on the throat, which has a few 

 narrow lines of black ; centre of abdomen paler, thighs and under tail coverts 

 ochraceous buff like the lower flanks, axillaries, and under wing coverts, 

 (Sharpe.) 



Length. 8-5 inches; wing 325 ; tail 39; tarsus 1-3; culmen O'8. (Mus. 

 JET. H. Godw.-Aust.) 



Hab. Munipur. 



517. Trochalopterum squamatum (Gould), Sharpe, Cat. B. 



Br. Mus. vii. p. 367. lanthocincla squamata, Gould, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 48. 

 Trochalopteron squamatum, Gray, Cat. Mamm., &V., Nepaul,^. 83; Jerd. 

 B. Ind. ii. p. 46; JJume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 260; id., Str. F. 1879, 

 p. 97. The BLUE-WINGED LAUGHING-THRUSH. 



Head, neck and body above olive brown, each feather edged with black 

 lunules ; rump and upper tail coverts dark chestnut ; eyebrows black ; lores 

 fulvescent ; wing coverts olive brown, the feathers edged with black ; greater 

 coverts and secondaries externally ferruginous ; bastard wing blue grey on the 

 outer webs ; primary coverts black ; quills black, also blue grey on the outer 

 webs ; tail black, tipped with ferruginous, and dull chestnut near the base ; 

 chin, cheeks, throat, and under surface of body rufescent brown, fulvous in the 

 centre of the body, all the feathers margined with black ; under tail coverts 

 chestnut. Bill black ; legs shining fleshy brown ; irides red brown. 



Length. 8'8 to 9 inches; wing 3*9 to 4; tail 4-0 ; tarsus 1-5. 



Hab. Eastern Himalayas ; Nepaul to Darjeeling, Sikkim, Bhootan, and the 

 Khasia Hills. Jerdon says it is common in the neighbourhood of Darjeeling. 

 According to Hodgson, it breeds in the central region of Nepaul during May 

 and June in forests. The nest is placed in a fork of a branch on a small tree, 

 and is a large mass of dry leaves and coarse grass made firm and compact. 

 Eggs 4 5, unspotted, verditer blue, cylindrical oval, obtuse at both ends. 

 Size 1-25 x 0-82. Mr. Gammie also took nests in Sikkim. 



518. Trochalopterum subunicolor (Biyth\ Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. 



Mus. vii. p. 368. Trochalopteron subunicolor, Blyth, J . A. S. B. xii. p. 

 952 (descr nulld} ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 44, No. 417 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, 

 Ind. B. p. 259 ; id. Str. F. 1879, p. 97. Garrulax subunicolor, Blyth, 

 J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 599 (descr prima) ; id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 96. The 

 PLAIN-COLOURED LAUGHING-THRUSH. 



Above, including the rump and upper tail coverts, olive brown ; the feathers 

 with a sub-terminal bar of paler olive, and margined with black mottlings ; the 

 dark margins less conspicuous on the rump and upper tail coverts ; crown of 

 the head slightly darker olive, with black edges to the feathers ; lores blackish ; 

 ear coverts and cheeks dusky brown with silvery ash shaft lines ; wing coverts 

 olive brown, lighter on the bastard wing ; primary coverts blackish ; outer 

 webs olive brown ; quills dusky ^ their outer ivebs gulden olive ; the primaries ashy 



