TROCHALOPTERUM. 95 



rufous, paler oil the forehead ; lores and sides of head black ; cheeks 

 and a large patch behind the ear-coverts white, extending to the 

 sides of the neck where it becomes pale rufous ; hind neck rufous- 

 brown, blending with the darker brown of the head; back and 

 scapulars rufous-brown, each feather broadly terminated with pale 

 tfivy ; rump olive-brown ; upper tail-coverts ferruginous ; tail slaty 

 blue, three quarters of all the outer webs and of the inner webs of 

 the middle pair of feathers overlaid with bright golden yellow ; 

 wing-coverts rufous ; primary-coverts black ; winglet and tertiaries 

 slaty blue ; the outer webs of the primaries and secondaries bright 

 golden yellow on the greater portion of their length, slaty blue 

 elsewhere ; chin black ; throat rufous-brown ; breast paler rufous, 

 each feather narrowly edged with grey ; remainder of lower plu- 

 mage rufous-brown. 



Bill black ; feet reddish brown ; iris brown (Jerdoii) ; iris olive 

 (Stanford). 



Length about 10 ; tail 5'2 ; wing 4-1 ; tarsus 1*5 ; bill from 

 gape 1. 



Distribution. Nepal, Sikhim, and Bhutan at high elevations, being 

 found from 8000 to 13,000 feet. 



Habits. Blanford observes that this species is subalpine; it 

 ranges much above all other forms. He found it in rhododendron 

 scrub and on the skirts of the pine woods in Sikhim. 



90. Trochalopterum variegatum. The Eastern Variegated 

 La uyliiny- Th r as7i . 



Cinclosoma variegatum, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 56 ; Gould, Cent. 



pi. 1(3. 



Garrulax variegatus ( Vig.}, Blyth, Cat. p. 97. 

 Pterocyclus variegatus ( Vig.}, Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 207. 

 Trochalopteron variegatum ( Viy.}, Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 45 ; Stoliczka, J. 



A. S. B. xxxvii, pt. ii, p. 37; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 305; Hume, N. 



4- E. p. 260 (part.) ; id. S. F. vii, p. 457 ; id. Cat. no. 418; Sharpe, 



Cat. B. M. vii, p. 359 (part.) ; Oates in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. 



i, p. 59. 



The Variegated Laughing-Thrush, Jerd.; Ganza, Nep. 



Coloration. Forehead fulvous ; crown and nape ashy brown ; 

 feathers on the eyelids and a spot behind the eye white ; lores 

 black, extending over and below the eye to the upper part of the 

 ear-coverts ; remainder of ear-coverts white with a black patch ; 

 chin and upper throat black ; cheeks fulvous, produced downwards 

 and meeting round the black throat ; sides of neck and the whole 

 upper plumage olive-brown ; wing-coverts olive-brown, the greater 

 one broadly edged with rufous ; winglet and primary-coverts black ; 

 the inner webs of the tertiaries black, the outer grey tipped with 

 white ; outer webs of primaries and secondaries bright golden yellow 

 tinged with rufous and tipped with white ; a large black patch on 

 the secondaries ; the middle four pairs of tail-feathers black on three 

 quarters of their length, then ashy yellow and tipped with white ; 



