90 TIMELIID^E. 



529. lanthocincla ocellata (Vigors), Bp. Consp. \. p. 371 ; 



Sharpe t Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 382. Cinclosoma ocellatum, Vig. P. Z. S. 

 I S3i,p. 55; Gould. Cent. Him. B. pi. 15. Crateropus ocellatus, Blyth, 

 J. A. S. B. xi. p. 179. Garrulax ocellatus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 951 ; 

 Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 41, No. 414 ; Hume, Nests a?id Eggs, Ind. B. p. 257. 

 The WHITE-SPOTTED LAUGHING-THRUSH. 



PLATE. 



Head, nape, cheeks and throat black, the hinder part of the cheeks tawny 

 with narrow black bars ; the base of the chin also tawny ; lower throat, 

 foreneck and chest ashy fulvous with subterminal black bars ; upper surface 

 of body chestnut brown, the feathers of the mantle with a subterminal black 

 bar and a yellowish buff tip ; lower back, rump, and upper tail coverts with 

 a large triangular spot of white at the tip of each feather and a subterminal 

 black bar ; wing coverts like the back, also spotted with white ; bastard wing 

 and primary coverts black, tipped with a spot of white ; quills blackish, all 

 tipped with white ; the primaries greyish and the secondaries chestnut on 

 their outer webs ; innermost secondaries tipped white and with a black 

 subterminal bar ; central feathers chestnut brown, tipped with white and with 

 a broad subterminal band of black, which increases in size towards the outer 

 feathers ; under surface of the body ochraceous buff, tawny on the flanks, 

 thighs and under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts and axillaries dusky black- 

 ish, tipped with fulvous. Bill yellowish, dusky on the ridge and tip ; legs dull- 

 yellow ; irides yellow-brown. 



Length. 12'5 to 13*5 inches; wing 5-25 to 5-5; tail 6-26; tarsus 1-85 ; 

 culmen 1-25. 



ffafr. Eastern Himalayas, Darjeeling, Sikkim, Nepaul. Abundant about 

 Darjeeling between 8,000 and 10,000 feet elevation. Breeds, according to 

 Hume, in the low warm valleys leading to the Great Runjeet. Eggs long, 

 cylindrical ovals, very obtuse even at the smaller end ; delicate pale blue, spot- 

 less or with a few chocolate brown specks. Size, 1-18 to 1-25 x 0-85 to 0*86. 



Gen. Gampsorhynchus. Blyth. 



Bill shorter than in lanthocincla, about the length of the head, wide and 

 deep at the base, curving to the tip, which is much hooked and notched ; 

 nostrils with a posterior operculum, rounded and exposed ; rictal bristles 

 strong, stiff, and long ; wings moderate, much rounded, the 5th, 6th, and 7th 

 quills nearly equal and longest ; tail long, graduated. 



