TROCWALOPTEEUM. 93 



Legs, feet, and claws very pale brown to reddish brown ; bill 

 black ; iris brown or hazel-nut brown (Hume $ Davison}. 



Length 1O5 ; tail 4*4 ; wing 4*1 ; tarsus 1'5 ; bill from gape 

 1-2. 



Distribution. Karennee at 5000 feet ; the pine forests of the 

 Sal ween river ; Muleyit mountain in Tenasserim from 3000 feet 

 to the summit. 



Habits, <$fc. According to Mr. Davison these birds keep in parties 

 of six or eight, feeding chiefly on the ground and keeping much in 

 the brushwood. They are neither very noisy nor very silent; 

 they utter from time to time a fine whistling call. They appear to 

 feed exclusively on insects. 



87. Trochalopterum phceniceum. The Crimson-winged 

 Laugh i ng- Thrush . 



lanthocincla phoenicea, Gould, Icon. Av. pi. 3 (1837). 



Garrulax phceniceus (Gould)) Blyth, Cat. p. 97. 



Trochalopteron phceniceum (Gould), Horsf. 8f M. Cat. i, p. 2JO; 



Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 48 ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. ii, p. 105; 



Hume, N. # & p. 262 ; id. Cat. no. 422 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, 



p. 371 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 168 ; Oates in Hume's N. E. 2nd ed. 



i, p. 68. 

 Tilji-pho, Lepch. ; Repcha, Bhut. 



Coloration. Lores, cheeks, ear-coverts, round the eye, and a patch 

 on the side of the neck crimson ; a short and somewhat irregular 

 supercilium black; the whole upper plumage olive-brown, the 

 feathers of the crown with partially concealed black margins ; tail 

 black, broadly tipped with orange, the outermost feathers suffused 

 with orange throughout ; wing-coverts olive-brown ; primary- 

 coverts dusky, edged with olive-brown ; winglet suffused with 

 crimson on the outer webs and the outermost coverts edged with 

 the same ; outer webs of primaries edged with crimson and yel- 

 lowish, the former increasing and the latter diminishing in extent 

 inwards ; secondaries with the middle portion of the outer webs 

 edged with pale blue, the terminal portion with crimson, the bases 

 suffused with olive-green ; the whole lower plumage fulvous olive- 

 brown, tinged with ashy on the abdomen ; under tail-coverts black, 

 broadly tipped with crimson. 



Legs and feet brown with a purplish tinge ; bill blackish ; iris 

 crimson or brownish-maroon to lac-red; bare and orbital skin 

 leaden-dusky (Hume}. 



Length about 9 ; tail 4 ; wing 3'2 ; tarsus 1-3 : bill from gape -9. 



Distribution. Kepal ; Sikhim ; Bhutan ; Khasi hills ; Lhota Naga 

 hills ; Manipur. This species appears to range chiefly from 4000 

 to 6000 ft, of elevation. 



Habits, $'c. Breeds from April to June, constructing its nest of 

 bamboo leaves and twigs, lined with fibres and moss, in dense 

 undergrowth, and laying three eggs, which are blue marked with 

 spots and lines of maroon and purple and measure 1-04 by '74. 



