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the slopes of the Pegu Hills and Thayetmyo. According to Gates it is common 

 throughout the northern half of Pegu, or perhaps only down to the latitude of 

 Prome. Mr. Hume has, however, seen specimens from Rangoon. Capt. Wardlaw- 

 Ramsay found it in Karenne. Mr. Davison met with it at Meetan, at the foot of 

 Mooleyit ; Mr. Darling at Kaukarit ; and Capt. Bingham in the Thougyeen 

 Valley. Mr. Gates found the nest in the Pegu Hills, containing three fresh 

 eggs. It was in a bamboo clump, seven feet from the ground, made outwardly 

 of dead leaves and coarse roots, lined with finer roots and a few feathers ; 

 another nest taken at Sikkim, Mr. Hume says, was also found in a bamboo 

 clump, and contained two eggs ; broad ovals, somewhat pointed towards one 

 end, of a uniform pale greenish blue and fairly glossy. Size 1*33 xo'QS inch. 



564. GarriUax moniliger (Hodgs), Blyth, J. A. s. B. xii. p. 949 ; 



lip. Consp. i, p. 371; Jerd. B. 2nd. ii. p. 40, No. 413; Godw.-Ausl. 

 y. A. S. B. xxxix. p. 104; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 257; id. 

 Sir. F. 1874, p. 476; 1875, p. 123 ; Blyth and Wald. B. Burm. p. 108 ; 

 Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 34 ; Dates, t. c. p. 156; id. and Dav. Str. F. 1878, 

 pp. 20i, 515 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, pp. 96, 169 ; Bingham, Str. F. 1880, 

 p. 181 ; Oates, Sir. F. 1881, p. 208 ; id. B. Br. Burm. p. 35. Cinclosoma 

 moniliger, Hodgs. Asia/. Res. xix. p. 147. lanthocincla pectoralis (non 

 Gould), McClell. P. Z. S. 1839, p. 160. Garrulax macclellandi, Blyth, 

 J". A. S. B. xii. p. 949. The NECK-LACED LAUGHING-THRUSH. 



Forehead and crown olive brown, the shafts rather darker; a collar of 

 bright rusty on the back of the neck ; back, scapulars, rump, upper wing and 

 upper tail coverts olive brown, tinged with ferruginous ; superciliary streak 

 white ; lores black, also the feathers round the eye ; a line from the eye passing 

 over the ear coverts and widening to form a broad collar across the breast ; 

 ear coverts white grey and sometimes black ; chin, throat, cheeks and 

 breast above the black collar white, tinged with rusty near the collar ; under 

 surface fulvous, turning to whitish on the abdomen ; primaries and secon- 

 daries brown, their outer margin cinereous ; tertiaries cinereous ; tail feathers 

 cinereous, all except the centre pair with a subterminal black band and a 

 broad white tip. Bill dark horn, the tip paler ; iris bright yellow ; eyelids 

 dull purple ; legs light plumbeous. 



Length. 11*3 to 12 inches; tail 4-9; wing 5; tarsus 17; bill from 

 gape 1-3. 



Hab. Throughout the Indo-Burmese countries, and in the Himalayas 

 from Assam to Sikkim. Found in the Khasia hills, Sylhet, Cachar, Lower Pegu, 

 Nepaul, Darjeeling, Bhootan, Tonghoo and Thayetmyo. Blyth records it from 

 Arrakan. In Tenasserim it has been found as far south as Tavoy and also 

 in the Thoungyeen valley. It breeds during June and July. Eggs, greenish 

 blue, T2 x 0-9. 



