84 CEATEROPODTDJB. 



mountain in Tenasseriin, where this species is found at elevations 

 above 3500 feet. 



Habits, fyc. Mr. Davison remarks : " This species is not by any 

 means uncommon, occurring in small flocks of twenty or more, and 

 keeping entirely, so far as I have observed, to the forest, especially 

 to the ravines where this is densest." He adds that it is very shy 

 and beats a rapid retreat at the approach of anybody. It is a very 

 clamorous bird. 



Genus IANTHOCTNCLA, Gould, 1835. 



I apply the generic term lanthocincla to those Laughing-Thrushes 

 which have no bristles at the base of the forehead, but in which 

 the nostrils are overhung by a few long hairs. This genus differs 

 in no other respect from Dryonastes and Garrulaac, and consequently 

 I do not figure the head. All the species are remarkable in 

 having the secondaries tipped with white. 



The eggs of two species only are known. One lays unspotted 

 white eggs, and the other has them of a colour which has not yet 

 been determined satisfactorily. The only two eggs of this latter 

 species which Hume has had the opportunity of examining are 

 described by him as being, one an unspotted pale blue, and the 

 other blue with a few brown spots at the large end. When more 

 eggs of /. ocellata are known they will doubtless prove to be un- 

 spotted as a rule, the spotted ones being the exception. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Crown and nape black. 



a'. Upper plumage spotted with white .... I. ocellata, p. 84. 



b'. Upper plumage plain /. cineracea, p. 85. 



c'. Upper plumage barred with black /. rvfavfaru, p. 86. 



b. Crown and nape reddish-brown with pale 



shafts I. austeni, p. 87. 



78. lanthocincla ocellata. The White-spotted Lauyhiny-Thrush. 



Cinclosoma ocellatum, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 55; Gould, Cent. 



pi. 15. 

 Garrulax ocellatus ( Vig.}, myth, Cat. p. 96 ; Horsf. $ M. Cat. \ 



p. 205 ; Jerd. S. I. ii,p. 41 ; id. Ibis, 1872. p. 304 : Hume, N. & E. 



p. 257 ; id. Cat. no. 414. 

 lanthocincla ocellata ( Vig.\ Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 382 ; Oates in 



Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. i, p. 54. 



Lho-karreum-pho, Lepch. 



Coloration. Lores, front of face, chin, and a supercilium bright 

 fulvous ; forehead, crown, and nape blackish brown ; ear-coverts 

 chestnut ; upper back and sides of neck fulvous, with broad black 

 subterminal marks on all the feathers, which are also tipped fulves- 

 cent ; scapulars, wing-coverts, lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts reddish brown, with white spots preceded bv black marks ; 



