102 CBATEEOPODID^F. 



one of the best known of Himalayan birds, frequenting the neigh- 

 bourhood of bungalows at the hill-stations. It breeds from April to 

 {September, constructing a bulky, deep, nest of grass and fine stems 

 of herbaceous plants in thick bushes near the ground. The eggs, 

 usually three in number, are greenish blue without any marks, and 

 measure 1-01 by '73. 



100. Trochalopterum imbricatum. The Bristly Lauyhiny- Thrush. 



Garrulax imbricatus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii, p. 951 (1843) j id. Cat. 



p. 98. 



Pterocyclus imbricatus (Blyth), Horsf. fy M. Cat. i, p. 208. 

 Trochalopteron setifer (Hodys.\ apud Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 51. 

 Trochalopterum imbricatum (Hodys.\ Hume, Cat. no. 426; Sharpe, 



Cat. B. M. vii, p. 379. 



Coloration. Forehead, crown, nape, and bind neck dark reddish 

 brown, with glistening black shafts, the feathers, especially those of 

 the forehead, stiff and pointed ; lores, a short supercilium, and sides 

 of the head greyish brown with white shafts ; mantle, scapulars, 

 and sides of the neck reddish brown with grey margins and glis- 

 tening white shafts ; rump and upper tail-coverts olive-brown with 

 pale shafts and obsolete narrow cross-bars ; tail reddish brown, 

 the outer feathers black towards the ends and tipped white ; the 

 outer primaries edged with grey, the others and all the coverts 

 reddish brown, the tertiaries edged paler; chin and throat reddish 

 brown ; remainder of the lower plumage reddish brown with 

 glistening white shafts ; thighs and under tail-coverts olive-brown. 



The colour of the bill &c. has not been recorded. 



Length about 8*5; tail 3'8; wing 3*1; tarsus I'l ; bill from 

 gape -85. 



Distribution. Bhutan only, whence there are three specimens in 

 the British Museum. 



No specimen of this rare bird is contained in either the Hodgson 

 or the Hume Collection, and there is no evidence whatever to show 

 that this species occurs in Nepal. Hodgson figures two birds, one 

 of which is undoubtedly the ordinary form of T. lineatwn and the 

 other is a somewhat peculiar form of the same, but bearing no 

 resemblance to T. imbricatum. 



Genus GEAMMATOPTILA, Eeichenb., 1850. 



The two birds of this genus may be recognized by their stout, 

 short, deep bill, striated plumage, and by the long frontal hairs 

 which reach over the nostrils. They inhabit the mountain-ranges 

 of northern and north-eastern India, frequent dense jungle, go in 

 parties, and have peculiar calls. They lay eggs which in some 

 cases are spotless, in others spotted, and their proper place appears 

 to be near Trochalopterum. 



