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530. Gampsorhynchus rufulus, Biyth, J. A. S. B. xvii. p. 371 ; 



Jerd.B. Ind. ii. p. 14; Wald. Ibis, 1875, p. 450; ffume, Sir. F. 1879, 

 p. 95 ; Gates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 40 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. JBr. Mus. vii. 

 p. 386. The WHITE-HEADED SHRIKE-THRUSH. 



Above, including'the scapulars, golden brown ; head, neck, throat and breast, 

 also the under surface, pure white ; the vent, flanks and under tail-coverts 

 tinged with buff ; rump and upper tail-coverts fulvous or golden brown ; tail 

 the same, and tipped paler ; lesser and median wing-coverts white, forming a 

 shoulder patch ; bastard wing and primary coverts dusky on their inner webs, 

 and golden brown on the outer ; quills the same ; axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts yellowish buff, with white bases. 



Young birds have the top of the head, nape, ear-coverts, and sides of the 

 head chestnut; under surface of the body yellowish buff. Bill dusky horny 

 above, paler beneath ; legs reddish horny ; irides orange yellow in some, in 

 others straw yellow. 



Length. 8*3 to 9 inches ; wing 3-85 to 3*9 ; tail 4-5 to 47 ; culmen 0-85 ; 

 tarsus 1*15. 



Hab Eastern Himalayas to Arrakan. It has been found in Nepaul and in 

 Sikkim ; also the hill tracts of Bengal. In, Sikkim Jerdon says it frequents the 

 warmer valleys to 3,000 feet elevation. Those which he had examined had 

 eaten grasshoppers and other insects. 



531. Gampsorhynchus torquatus, Hume, P. A. S. Beng. 1874, 



p. 107; id. Sir. F. ii. p. 446 ; Hume, and Dav. Sir. F. vi. p. 258; Hume, 

 Sir. F. viii. pp. 95, 168; Bingham, Sir. F. ix. p. 178; Oates, B. Br. Burm. 

 i. p. 41; Sharps, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 41. The TENASSERIM SHRIKE- 

 THRUSH. 



Resembles rufulus, but is smaller and has a slightly smaller bill ; the white 

 of the head does not extend backwards beyond the crown, nor that of the throat 

 on to the breast ; a deep rufous band bounds the white of the head everywhere, 

 being deepest and most conspicuous across the base of the throat, where it 

 forms a regular and most marked collar. 



Bill greyish horny or fleshy white, with, in some cases, a dusky line on the 

 culmen ; the legs and feet greyish white ; irides pale to bright golden ; tail 

 feathers tipped with white, not golden buff. 



Length. 9-4 to 10-2 inches; wing 37 to 4'i J tail 4*5 to 5; tarsus ro$ 



tO I'2. 



Hab. -Tenasserim, ranging into the Karen Hills in Burmah. 



