100 CEATEROPODID^E. 



97. Trochalopterum meridionale. Stanford's Laughing-Thrush. 



Trochalopteron fairbanki, Blanf., Hume, S. F. vii, p. 36 (1878). 

 Trochalopterum meridionale, Blanf. J. A. S. B. xlix, p. 142 (1880) ; 

 Hume, S. F. ix, p. 505 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 375. 



Coloration. Forehead, crown, nape, and lores dusky brown ; a 

 short white band over the lores reaching only to the eye ; sides of 

 head and neck, the whole upper plumage, wings, and tail ashy olive- 

 brown, tinged with fulvous on the upper tail-coverts ; chin nearly 

 white ; throat and breast white, streaked with ashy ; centre of 

 abdomen white ; sides and under tail-coverts bright rufous ; vent 

 and thighs olivaceous brown. 



Iris dark red ; bill black ; legs dusky (Bourdilloii). 



Length about 8-5; tail 3'7; wing 3'4 ; tarsus 1-3; bill from 

 gape '9. 



Distribution. Travancore. There are specimens in the British 

 Museum from Chinipanui, the Patnas, Mynall, and the Tinnevelly 

 boundary, 4000 feet. 



98. Trochalopterum virgatum. The Manipur Streaked 

 La ugh ing- Thrush . 



Trochalopteron virgatum, Godwin- Austen, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 46 ; id. 

 J. A. S. B. xliii, pt. ii, p. 162 ; Hume, S. F. iii, p. 395 j id. Cat. 

 no. 425 bis ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 379. 



Coloration. Point of the forehead and a long supercilium ex- 

 tending to* the nape white ; lores ferruginous; cheeks, lower part 

 of ear-coverts, and under the eye fulvous white ; upper part of 

 ear-coverts ferruginous, with pale shaft-streaks ; crown, nape, 

 mantle, lesser wing-coverts, and sides of the neck reddish brown, 

 with very white shafts ; lower back, scapulars, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts ashy brown, with white shafts ; tail olive-brown, dis- 

 tinctly cross-rayed, the outer feathers tipped white ; greater wing- 

 coverts chestnut, with white shafts and tips ; primary-coverts pale 

 rufous, with white shafts and brown tips ; wiuglet deep ashy, with 

 the outer webs white along the shafts ; wings ashy ; the middle 

 feathers washed with chestnut, and the tertiaries edged with paler 

 ashy ; chin and throat deep chestnut, shading off into yellowish 

 buff on the remainder of the lower plumage, all the feathers with 

 white shafts. 



Legs and feet pale greyish fleshy ; soles yellowish ; bill deep 

 brown ; iris brown ; orbital skin leaden-dusky (Hume}. 



Length about 9'5 ; tail 4-5; wing 3*4; tarsus 1'25 ; bill from 

 gape -9. 



Distribution. The first specimen of this bird was obtained near 

 the village of E-azami under the Kopamedza ridge at 5000 feet in 

 the Naga hills. Hume subsequently observed it in the higher 

 portions of the Eastern hills of Manipur about Airaole, Matchi, 

 and Tankool Hcondoong. 



