110 TIMEL1ID/E. 



Hal. The Himalayas from Cashmere to Bhoolan and Simla, at elevations 

 of from 6,000 feet to 9,000 feet. Cashmere, Murree, Ramgurh, Kumaon, 

 Nepaul, Bhootan, Mussoorie and Darjeeling are recorded localities ; butjerdon 

 says the White-throated Laughing-Thrush is not very common in these 

 localities. It prefers higher elevations. It lives in large flocks, feeds mostly 

 on the ground, and like its congeners is every now and then screaming and 

 chattering. Hume says it breeds throughout the lower southern 1 range of the 

 Himalayas from Assam to Afghanistan, from April to the end of June. The 

 nest is a structure composed of coarse grass, flags, creepers, dead leaves, 

 moss and moss roots, lined with finer roots. It is placed on a small bush, 

 3 to 10 feet from the ground. The eggs are 2 4 in number, of a deep 

 and beautiful shining green colour, or greenish blue. In size they vary from 

 ri6 to 1*25 inches x O'8 to O'86. They are long ovals and pointed at one 

 end. 



563. Garrulax pectoralis (Gould), Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii, 



p. 949; Bp. Consp. i. p. 371 ; Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 39, No. 412 ; Hume, 

 Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 256 ; id. Str. F. 1875, p. 122 ; Blyth and Wald. 

 B. Burnt, p. 108 ; Oates, Str. F. 1877, p. 156; Hume and Day., Str. F. 1878, 

 p. 29; Hume, Str. F. 1879, pp. 96, 169; Bingham, Str. F. 1880, p. 181 ; 

 Gates, Str. F. 1881, p. 208; id. B. Br. Burm. i. p. 36; Sharpe, Cat. B. 

 Br> Mus. vii. p. 441. lanthocincla pectoralis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1835, p. i86 

 Garrulax melanotis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 949. Garrulax uropygialis* 

 Cab. in Ersch and Grub. Allg. Encyc. Band. 55, p. 62. The BLACK-GORGETTED 

 LAUGHING-THRUSH. 



Crown of the head ashy olivaceous brown, separated from the lack by a broad 

 orange rufous band; lores and a distinct eyebrow ashy white, edged above 

 and below with a narrow black line, the latter extending from the base of the 

 bill, unites into a broad band, and descends on the sides of the neck to form a 

 gorget on the top of the breast', moustache and throat white; ear coverts 

 various, white brown or black ; rest of under surface creamy white, washed 

 with fulvous on the under tail coverts ; back and rump rufescent olivaceous 

 brown ; wing coverts the same ; primary coverts dusky blackish, washed with 

 ashy* grey ; quills dark brown ; the primaries hoary grey externally ; upper 

 tail coverts and tail olivaceous brown, all but the two centre feathers tipped 

 with white and with a subterminal black band ; sides of the body orange buff ; 

 axillaries the same ; under wing coverts dusky brown. Upper mandible dark 

 horn colour : lower one bluish horn at the base and tip, darker in the middle ; 

 iris orange brown. Eyelids and orbital skin dusky blue ; edges of the eyelids 

 orange yellow ; legs light plumbeous. 



Length. 10*5 to n inches; wing 5-6; tail 5*2; tarsus 1*85; culmen 1-4. 



Hab. Eastern Himalayas, extending through Assam and Arrakan to Pegu 

 and Tenasserim. Recorded from Nepaul, Darjeeling, Garo Hills, Arrakan, 



