86 TIMELIID/E. 



white ; ear coverts and sides of the face dull ashy ; cheeks also ashy ; a broad 

 super cilium white ; hind neck ashy gray ; sides of the neck bluish grey ; 

 foreneck and chest ashy grey, paler in the centre with dusky longitudinal 

 stripes ; under surface of the body, including the under wing coverts and 

 axillaries, orange rufous ; thighs fulvous brown. 



Length. 87 to 9 inches; wing 3-5 ; tail 37 ; tarsus 1-35 ; culmen 0-85. 



The young is similar to the adult but duller in colour and have the head 

 of the same colour as the back ; the upper tail coverts rufous brown ; the ear 

 coverts light rufescent brown ; breast entirely ashy with no appearance of 

 dusky streaks. (Sharpe.) 



Hab.Tte Palani Hills. 



524. Trochalopterum meridionale (Bianft, J. A. s. B. xiix. 



p. 142; Hume, Str. F. 1880, p. 500; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br.Mus. vii. p. 375. 

 Trochalopteron fairbanki (non. Blanf.), Hume, Str. F. 1878, p. 36. The 

 TRAVANCORE LAUGHING-THRUSH. 



Adult male (type of spesies). Above, including the wing coverts, slaty grey, 

 washed with olive, the lower back and rump being perceptibly more olive ; 

 quills dusky brown, externally ashy grey with a tinge of olive ; tail feathers 

 dark brown, washed with olive on the outer webs and barred with dusky under 

 certain lights ; crown of head slaty brown, darker than the back ; lores sooty 

 blackish, relieved by a spot of white just in front of the eye ; no eyebroiv ; 

 ear coverts and sides of face light slaty brown, the sides of the neck more 

 ashy; under surface of the body dull white; the foreneck washed with ashy ; 

 the throat and breast streaked with ashy brown centres to the feathers ; sides 

 of breast and flanks bright chestnut ; thighs olive brown ; under tail coverts 

 darker chestnut ; under wing coverts and axiHaries light rufous. (Sharpe.) 



Length. 8*5 inches; wing 3-5; tail 3-6; tarsus 1-4; culmen 0-9. 



The female is like the male but smaller. 



Length. 7-5 inches; wing 3-25 ; tail 3*4; tarsus 1-25. 



Hab. Travancore (South India). The highlands at an elevation of 4,000 

 feet. 



525. Trochalopterum lineatum ( Vigors), Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. 



Mus. vii. p. 377. Cinclosoma lineatum, Vigors, P. Z,. S. 1831, p. 56. 

 Garrulax lineatus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 951. Trochalopteron lineatum, 

 (Vigors), Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 50, No. 425 ; Cock, and Harsh., Str. F. 1873, 

 p, 352 ; Hume and Hend., Lahore to Yarkand, p. 195 ; Hume, Nests and 

 Eggs, Ind. B. p. 264; Brooks, Str. F. 1875, P- 2 3 8 5 Hume, Sfr. F. 1879, 

 p. 97; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 34; Scully, t. c. p. 440. The STREAKED 

 LAUGHING-THRUSH. 



Head and back olivaceous ashy, the feathers centred with reddish brown 

 and dusky ; middle of back reddish brown, the feathers edged with ashy grey 



