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70. Garrulax belangeri. The Burmese White-crested 

 Laughing- Thrush. 



Garrulax belangeri, Less. Tr. cTOrn. p. 648 (1831) ; id. in Belang. 

 Voy. Indes. Or. p. 258, pi. 4 ; Blyth, Cat. p. 95 ; Ilorsf. & M. Cut. 



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vi, p. 2o; mane, cat. no. 4U/ bis; Utngnam, ff. /*'. ix, p. 181; Oates, 

 S. F. x, p. 208 ; id. B. B. i, p. 33 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 436 ; 

 Gates in Hume's N. fy .E. 2nd ed. i, p. 48. 



Wa-youn-hnct, Burin. 



Coloration. Lores, ear-coverts, and round the eye black ; the 

 whole head and crest, sides of neck, chin, throat, breast, and upper 

 abdomen, continued narrowly down the middle of the latter, white ; 

 hinder part of crest deep ashy ; upper plumage bright ferruginous ; 

 lower plumage the same, becoming duller on the thighs, vent, and 

 under tail-coverts ; wings brown, edged on the outer webs with 

 rufous-brown ; tail dark brown, washed with rufous-brown on the 

 outer webs. 



Bill black ; gape yellow ; mouth flesh-colour ; iris pinkish hazel ; 

 legs plumbeous; claws pale horn-colour; eyelids purplish grey. 



Length about 11-5; tail 4-8; wing 5; tarsus 1-7; bill from 

 gape 1-4. 



This species may be distinguished from the last by the white of 

 the breast running into the abdomen and by the upper and lower 

 plumage, except the white portions, being of a bright ferruginous. 

 From the next it may be known by the ashy portion of the crest 

 abruptly meeting the ferruginous of the upper plumage, and by 

 the white of the lower parts extending only over a small portion of 

 the abdomen. 



Distribution. The whole of Pegu in the better-wooded parts ; 

 Tenasserim from Touugngoo down to Tavoy and the Thoungyeen 

 valley. 



Habits. Breeds from March to July precisely in the same manner 

 as the last species. The eggs, however, are almost invariably three 

 in number, and measure 1*13 by '88 ; they are pure white. 



71. Garrulax diardi. The Siamese White-crested Laughing -Thrush. 



Turdus diardi, Less. Tr. ffOrn. p. 408 (1831). 



Garrulax leucogaster, Wold. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 549; id. Ibis, 1867, p. 381. 

 Garrulax diardi (Less.), Hume, S. F. ix, p. 292 ; Oates, B. B. i, p. 34 ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 437. 



Coloration. Lores, ear-coverts, and round the eye black ; the 

 whole head and crest, cheeks, chin, throat, breast, and the whole 

 abdomen white, the hinder part of the crest pale ashy, spreading 

 over the whole hind neck and encroaching on to the sides also ; 

 entire upper plumage bright ferruginous ; sides of the body, thighs, 

 and under tail-coverts rufous olive-brown ; wings brown, with the 

 outer webs rufous-brown ; tail dark brown washed with olive. 



In the dry skin the bill is black and the legs plumbeous. 



Length about 11 ; tail 5; wing 5-5 ; tarsus 1-6; bill from gape 1-3. 



