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Habits, $c. Hume observes that this bird haunts dense under- 

 growth and is never seen except by accident, and hence, though not, 

 he believes, very scarce in the localities in which he found it, it is 

 still very hard to procure. It has a peculiar soft single-note call, 

 by following up which he procured all his specimens. 



99. Trochalopterum lineatum. The Himalayan Streaked 

 Laughing-Thrush. 



Cinclosoma lineatum, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 56. 



Cinclosoma setifera, Hoclgs. As. lies, xix, p. 148 (1836). 



Garrulax lineatus ( Viy. ), Blyth, Cat. p. 97. 



Pterocyclus lineal us (Vi(j.\ Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 209. 



Trochalopterou lineatum ( Vig.\ Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 50 ; Stoliczka, 

 J. A. S. B. xxxvii, pt. ii, p. 38 ; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 308 ; Cock $ 

 Marsh. S. F. i, p. 354 ; Hume fy Headers. Lah. to Yark. p. 195, pi. 8 ; 

 Hume, N. # E. p. 264 ; Brooks, S. F. iii, p. 238 ; Hume, Cat. 

 no. 425 ; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 291 ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 54, 

 1882, p. 272 ; Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 440 ; Sharps, Cat. B. M. vii, 

 p. 377 ; Oates in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. i, p. 64. 



Trochalopteron imbricatuni (ITodys.), apud Hume, N. $ E. p. 266. 



The Streaked Laughing- Thrush, Jerd. 



Coloration. Forehead, crown, nape, and mantle dark ashy, 

 streaked with dusky, the shafts black : lower back and wing-coverts 

 reddish brown, with white shafts ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 plain ashy ; tail washed with rufous, cross-rayed, with a subterminal 

 black band and grey tips ; wings chiefly rufous on the outer webs, 

 the tertiaries edged with grey ; lores and ring round the eye mingled 

 white and grey ; cheeks, ear-coverts, and an indistinct supercilium 

 castaneous ; chin, throat, breast, and upper abdomen chestnut, all 

 the feathers with ashy margins and those on the breast with glis- 

 tening white shafts ; lower abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts 

 ashy brown. 



Bill dusky ; the base of the lower mandible greyish or brownish 

 horny ; iris brown or reddish brown ; feet fleshy brown ; claws 

 livid horny (Scully}. 



Length about 8 ; tail 3'6 ; wing 3'1 ; tarsus 1-05 ; bill from 

 gape *9. 



The above description applies to Nepal birds, which are extremely 

 rufous and richly coloured. Further to the north-west the grey 

 margins of the feathers of the lower plumage become much wider 

 and the streaks on the head and back are much paler. In Kashmir 

 and Gilgit the prevailing colour of the lower plumage is grey, and 

 the rufous is in pale streaks ; the shafts of the breast-feathers are 

 much whiter, and frequently terminate in a triangular terminal 

 spot ; and the upper plumage is more ashy. 



Distribution. The whole of the Himalayas from Nepal to the 

 extreme west of Kashmir and the Hazara country. This species 

 appears to be found up to about 9000 feet. 



Habits, <$fc. This is a very common bird throughout its range, and 



