554 MR. R. SWINHOE ON NEW CHINESE BIRDS. [Apr. 16, 



I will take the opportunity of introducing a new Garrulax from the 

 same mountains as the above. It belongs to the group of necklaced 

 Laughing-Thrushes, and has close allies in G.pectoralis, Gould, and 

 G. moniliger, Hodgs., of the Himalayas. 



Garrulax picticollis, sp. nov. 



Loral region, extending into a streak over the eye, and a broad 

 mark under eye, throat, and middle of the belly white ; cheek black, 

 spotted with white ; a black line from behind eye and another from 

 base of bill meet round the ear and extend in a broad band down side 

 of the neck nearly meeting on breast, where it is broken by buff 

 feathers, which are only tipped with black ; upper parts yellowish 

 olive-brown, rufous on the back of the neck and hind edge of the 

 necklace ; sides of the breast and belly robin-rufous, paler on the 

 tibiae and vent. Wings coloured like the back ; the primaries and 

 secondaries with their inner webs blackish brown, the outer webs of 

 many of the former olive-buff near their tips, otherwise margined 

 with dark olive-brown ; axillaries buff, with a few black spots on the 

 carpal edge of wing, and dark primary under-coverts ; under wing 

 whitish, tinged with buff. Tail of twelve feathers, the centrals coloured 

 as the back, with indistinct bars of deeper shade; the fifth pair 

 similar but with reddish ochre tips, the remainder with broad oblique 

 black band, very broadly tipped (one inch and more) with rufous 

 buff. 



The above description is taken from an adult female procured 

 near the end of November 1871. The fresh bird measured, length 

 122; wing 5 '4, the five first quills graduated, 5th, 6th, and 7th 

 equal and longest, 8th a little shorter; tail 5-75, outermost feather 

 1-6 the shortest, outer five graduated, the fifth and centrals equal ; 

 tarsc 1-9. Upper mandible and broad tomial edge of lower bluish 

 black, rest of lower horny, tinged with bluish ; rim of eyelid blackish 

 grey ; iris chestnut ; inside of mouth black ; legs leaden, with paler 

 claws. 



Another female, apparently younger than the last, has the necklace 

 deep bluish grey shaded with black where it crosses the breast ; 

 inside of mouth dark green, with flesh-coloured tongue ; rim of eye- 

 lid tinged with yellow. Length 12-9 ; wing 5*2 ; tail 5-6 ; tarsi 2"2. 



A bird, still younger, of the male sex has the inside of mouth 

 orange-yellow ; rim of eyelid the same ; necklace mixed with much 

 bluish grey and widely broken on breast, the intermediate feathers 

 not tipped with black ; underparts light. 



The greater or less amount of black and grey in the necklace 

 seems due to individual variation, rather than to sexual difference 

 or to age. 



The stomachs of the specimens dissected contained smooth cater- 

 pillars, grasshoppers, seeds, and pulp of fig-like berries. 



