86 CRATEROPODID^;. 



ground, both on fruits and insects. It has a low, rather musical 

 call, or set of calls *. 



80. lanthocincla rufigularis. The Rufous-chinned 

 Laughing- Thrush. 



lanthocincla rufogularis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 48 j Oates in Hume's 



N. $ E. 2nd ed. i, p. 54. 



Cinclosoma rufimenta, Hoclgs. As. Res. xix, p. 148 (1836). 

 Garrulax rufogularis (Gould), Blyth, Cat. p. 96. 

 Trochalopteron rufogulare (Gould), Horsf. $ M. Cat.\, p. 210; Jerd. 



B. I. ii, p. 47 ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. ii, p. 104 ; Jerd. 



Ibis, 1872, p. 306 ; Hume, N. 8f E. p. 261 ; Godiv.-Aust. J. A. S. B. 



xlv, pt. ii, p. 76 ; Hume, S. F. vii, p. 155 ; id. Cat. no. 421 j Sharpe, 



Cat. B. M. vii, p. 365 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 168. 

 Narbiyivan-pho, Lepch. 



Coloration. A large patch on the lores pale fulvous or whitish ; a 

 large ring of grey round the eye ; ear-coverts bright rufous ; fore- 

 head and crown black ; the cheeks and a large patch under the eye 

 and ear-coverts mingled black and white, produced narrowly to the 

 back of the ear-coverts ; a broad supercilium reaching to the nape, 

 the sides of the neck, and the whole upper plumage olive-brown, 

 tinged with fulvous, each feather of the hind neck, back, and upper 

 rump tipped with a lunate black bar ; wing-coverts olive-brown, 

 the larger series broadly tipped with black ; primary-coverts dark 

 brown, margined with black ; winglet ashy, tipped black ; the 

 earlier primaries with the outer webs hoary, the others each with 

 a black patch, which increases progressively in extent up to the 

 last, the basal portions at the same time turning olivaceous : second- 

 aries with the outer webs olive-brown, broadly tipped with black, 

 succeeded by a narrow white line ; tertiaries entirely olive-brown 

 and tipped black and white ; tail rufescent, with a subterminal 

 black band and deep rufous tips ; chin and upper throat bright 

 rufous like the ear-coverts ; lower throat white ; under tail-coverts 

 deep chestnut; remaining lower plumage ashy-brown, albescent 

 on the abdomen, each feather of the breast, upper abdomen, and 

 sides of the body spotted with black. 



Bill horny yellow ; legs fleshy brown ; orbital skin blue (Jerclon). 



Length about 9 ; tail 4 ; wing 3*6 ; tarsus 1*3 ; bill from gape 1*1. 



The young have the crown olive-brown tipped black, the chin and 

 upper throat white, and the black bars on the upper plumage smaller 

 in size. The plumage of the adult is rapidly assumed. 



This species varies much in certain points of its coloration, and 

 the above description applies to birds found between Almora and 

 Murree. Nepal, Sikhim, and Bhutan birds have merely the point of 

 the chin rufous ; the ear-coverts are black, generally entirely black, 

 occasionally with a rufous tinge posteriorly, and the loral patch is 

 white. 



* /. cinereiceps, Styan, is said lo occur in Yunnan, and, consequently, is 

 likely to be found in Burma. It differs from I. cineracca chiefly in having the 

 crown dark ashy instead of black and the ear-coverts rufous instead of white. 



