TROCHALOPTERUM. 5 



in all the woods on the summit of the Neilgherries, and its loud laughing call 

 is often heard when the bird itself is unseen. Like others of the genus it lives in 

 small scattered flocks foraging about the thick brushwood. Their chief food 

 appears to be fruit, and especially that of the Phy sails peruviana ; insects too 

 they are very partial to. Breeds from February to June. The nest is, according 

 to Hume, a coarse clumsy structure composed of coarse grass, roots, &c. -, 

 the external diameter is from 6 to 9 inches, and the egg-cavity about 3 inches. 

 Eggs a delicate pale blue, speckled, spotted and blotched with brownish red 

 and dusky. Size 0*92 to ro8 inches by 074 to O'8. 



522. Trochalopterum jerdoni (Blyth), Sharpe, Cat, B. Br. Mus. 



vi. p. 373. Garrulax Jerdoni, Blyth, J. A. S. J3. xx. p. 522. Trochalop- 

 teron Terdoni ^Blyth\ Jerd. B. 2nd. ii. p. 49, No. 424; Hume, Str. F. 

 1879, p. 97. JERDON'S or the BANASORE LAUGHING-THRUSH, 



PLATE. 



Above olive brown, a little darker on the rump and upper tail coverts ; 

 head slaty, gradually shading off into ashy grey on the nape and hind-neck ; 

 wing coverts olive brown like the back ; primary coverts dusky brown ; quills 

 dark brown, edged on the outer web with olive brown ; tail feathers olive 

 brown with a slight ruddy tinge ; lores and behind the eye black ; supercilium 

 extending to the ear coverts white, tinged with ashy grey near its termina- 

 tion ; eyelids white ; forepart of the cheeks ashy grey ; ear coverts hoary 

 whitish ; chin and upper throat black ; lower throat hoary whitish ; foreneck 

 and breast pale ashy, forming a broad band ; under surface of body orange 

 rufous ; the sides of the body, flanks, thighs and under tail coverts, also the 

 axillaries, olive brown ; under wing coverts light orange buff. Bill black; legs 

 horny ; irides red. 



Length, 8 to 8*5 inches ; wing 3-3 ; tail 3*75 ; tarsus 1*3 ; culmen 0*8. 



Hab. Wynaad and Coorg in Southern India : Jerdon says he procured it 

 near the top of the Banasore peak, a high hill at the edge of the Ghats, 

 separating Malabar from the Wynaad, at an elevation of 5,OOO to 6,OOO feet. Its 

 voice, he adds, is very like its Neilgherry congener (to which it is very closely 

 allied) but more subdued. 



Nothing is known of its nidification, but it is no doubt the same as those of 

 T. cachinnans. 



523. Trochalopterum fairbanki (Elan/.), Sharpe, Cat, B. Br. 



Mus. vii. p. 374. Trochalopteron fairbanki, Blanf.^ J. A. S. B, xxxviii. 

 PP- 175, 177, pi. I?; Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 413; Fairbk. Str. F. 1877, 

 p. 404; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 97. FAIRBANK'S LAUGHING-THRUSH. 



Above, including the wing coverts, olive brown ; primary coverts and quills 

 dusky brown, narrewly edged on the outer web with olive brown ; the secon- 

 daries olive brown. Crown of the head brown j lores dusky brown ; eyelids 



