108 TIMELlIOffi. 



Length. n to 12 inches ; wing 5 to 5-13; tail 5 to 5-3; culmen \"2 ; 

 tarsus i '8. 



.ThQ N.-W. Himalayas to Bhootan and through the Khasia hills to 

 Arracan and Pegu. Kumaon Nepaul, Sikkim, Arrakan, Pegu, Bhootan and 

 the Khasia hills, as also the hills of Eastern Bengal, are recorded localities. 

 Occurs in large flocks of twenty or more, and are well known birds to every 

 forester on account of their peculiar discordant laughter-like or chattering 

 notes which are uttered now and again, and especially at a given signal of 

 danger, when it is said to be a deafening, demonaical chorus, which is kept 

 up till there is no further cause for anxiety. They are also said to execute 

 wonderful capers at times, erecting their crests, drooping their wings and 

 spreading out their tails. They feed on the ground, turning over dead leaves 

 in search of insects ; berries also form their food. They breed at various 

 elevations in Sikkim and Nepaul during April, May and June, laying from 4 

 to 6 eggs, which are white in colour, regular broad ovals, varying in size from 

 1-05 to ri3 x 0-89 to O'95. The nests are built in small trees and are made 

 of dry bamboo leaves and creepers, together with moss, roots and grass, &c., 

 intermixed. 



560. Garrulax Belangeri, Less, Traite d' o. p, 648 ; id. in 



Belang. Voy. Inde, p. 258, pi. iv. ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 948; Bp. Consp. 

 i. p. 37o ; Blyth, Wald. B. Burnt, p. 107 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1875, p. 122 ; 

 Oates, Sir. F. 1877, p. 156; Hume and Damson, Str. F. 1878, p. 286; 

 Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 96; 1880, p. 292; Gates, B. Brit, fiurm.p. 33; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 436. The BURMESE WHITE-CRESTED 

 LAUGHING-THRUSH. 



Base of upper mandible, lores, a ring round the eye, and the ear coverts 

 black ; head and crest pearly grey, tipped with white ; nape, hind neck, and 

 sides of the neck pearly grey, the feathers tipped with chestnut ; forehead and 

 feathers over the eye white, also the cheeks, throat, breast and upper abdomen, 

 but shaded with pearly grey ; on the sides of the breast, the feathers are 

 tipped with chestnut ; flanks bright chestnut ; upper wing coverts, back, 

 scapulars, rump, and upper tail coverts, the sides of the body, vent, under tail 

 coverts, and thighs rich ferruginous or deep chestnut ; quills dark sepia brown, 

 their outer webs rufescent olive brown ; tail feathers blackish brown, washed 

 with olive near the base ; under wing coverts and axillaries rufous brown. 

 Bill black ; gape yellow ; legs and feet dark plumbeous ; iris deep wood brown 

 or pinkish hazel ; eyelids purplish grey. 



Length. 10*5 to li'S inches ; wing 5 ; tail 4-6; tarsus r65 ; culmen 1*15, 



Hab. Pegu and Tenasserim, where it is found abundantly in all the 

 wooded parts. Tounghoo is also given as a locality. 



