DRYONASTES. ]J7 



574. DryOIiastes SanniO (Swinhoe), Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. viii. 

 p. 459. Garrulax sannio Swin., Ibis, 1867, p. 403 ; Andcr. Zool. Exp. 

 West. Yunnan, p. 627 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 96. Garrulax albosuper- 

 ciliaris, Godw.-Aust., P.Z. S. 1874, p. 45 ; id. J. A. S. B. xliii. pt. 2, p. 161, 

 pi. vii. ; Hume, Sir. 'F. 1875, P- 393 \ Godw.-Aust. Ann. and Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. xvii. p. 34 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1876, p. 502. The WHITE-BROWED LAUGHING- 

 THRUSH. 



Crown of the head chestnut brown ; hind neck slightly rufescent, the 

 feathers with dusky streaks ; nasal plumes blackish ; lores, a broad band 

 below the eye, along the sides of the face, yellowish white ; eyebrow pure white . 

 ear coverts dark chestnut brown ; cheeks and throat lighter chestnut brown ! 

 centre of body pale ochraceous buff ; sides of breast and flanks olive brown ; 

 a tuft of buffish fawn feathers on each side of the lower back ; under tail 

 coverts deep fawn ; under wing covert yellowish buff ; upper back olivaceous 

 brown ; wing coverts the same ; primary coverts dusky brown ; quills light 

 brown, olivaceous on their outer webs ; tail feathers rufous brown, dusky 

 towards the tips and on their outer webs ; the centre feathers rufous brown ; all 

 transversely barred with dusky under certain lights. Bill horny brown ; iris 

 chestnut red. 



Length. 8*2 to 8*5 inches ; wing 4*05 ; tail 4*05 ; tarsus I'S ; culmen I. 



Hab. Hills of North-Eastern Bengal to South China. 



575- Dryonastes CSBrulatus (Hodgs.\ Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 vii. p. 461. Cinclosoma caerulatum, Hodgs., Asiat. Res. xix. p. 147; id. 

 Icon. ined. in Br. Mus. Passer es, pi. 167; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. 

 p. 461. Crateropus caerulatus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 179. Garrulax 

 cserulatus, Slylh, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 951 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 36, No. 408 ; 

 Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 254 ; Godw.-Aust., J. A. S- B. xliii. 

 p. 160; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 96. lanthocincla caerulatum Bp. Consp. 

 i. p. 377. The GREY-SIDED LAUGHING-THRUSH. 



Base of the forehead, nasal plumes, lores, feathers round the eye, edge of 

 the throat, base of lower mandible and a streak below the eye black ; ear 

 coverts grey, tinged with rufescent and forming a conspicuous patch ; cheeks 

 reddish brown or rufescent, the feathers narrowly (in some only) edged with 

 black ; the general colour above including the lesser and median wing coverts, 

 mantle, and crown of the head rufous or olivaceous brown, the head in some 

 varied with black margins to the feathers; the greater coverts brighter rufous, as 

 are also the whole of the innermost secondaries ; outer web of primaries fulvous 

 brown ; throat and under surface of the body white ; sides of the upper 

 breast reddish brown ; the sides of the body ashy grey, slightly washed with 

 brown ; under tail coverts white ; tail chestnut, the inner webs paler ; upper 

 tail coverts reddish brown, also the axillaries and under wing coverts ; bill 

 black- legs fleshy white; orbital skin livid; irides red-brown. 



