173 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. VII1. 
This bird is found, as far as I know, only in the thickly-wooded 
ravines which run down the sides of bamboo-covered mountains or 
evergreen forests. I have never seen the bird during the cold season, so 
cannot say whether it collects in flocks or not. It has a fine, loud, 
double whistle. I have not heard it chattering like the other laughing 
thrushes. 
(22) D. GatBanus.—Austen’s Laughing Thrush. 
Oates, No. 68 ; Hume, No. 409, Quat. 
I have had two nests of this bird brought to me, together with one 
of the birds which had been trapped on the nest, and they are therefore 
most likely authentic. The nests were deep, massive cups composed 
of bamboo leaves, creepers, tendrils, fine twigs and grass and were 
lined with coarse fern roots and fern stems. In size they were 
about, externally, 8°5” across by some 6” deep, internally about 4” by 4”. 
Another nest much the same, but less massive, was shown to me as 
belonging to this bird ; but it was apparently deserted, for, though 
I waited a long time to watch for the parents, neither of them turned 
up. All three nests were placed in tangles of wild raspberries and 
other creepers. The normal number of eggs seems to be three, 
and in appearance they are hardly to be distinguished from the eggs 
of Garrulax lencolophus, which they closely resemble in colour (pure 
white), shape and texture, but they have their surface less pitted and 
they also average larger, viz., 1:22" by °93". 
(23) GARRULAX LENCOLOPHUS.—The Himalyan White-crested 
Laughing Thrush. 
Oates, No. 69 ; Hume, No. 407. 
Common everywhere. 
(24) G. pecroraLis.—The Black-gorgeted Laughing Thrush. 
Oates, No. 73 ; Hume, No. 418. 
My eggs, a series of 100, average longer than Hume’s measure- 
ments and at the same time are not so broad, being 1:2” by -83” as 
against 1:07" by °85" in “ Nests and Hggs” (vol. I, p. 81). I have 
some eggs quite as pale blue as the eggs of Dryonastes rujicollis, but 
they are devoid of any gloss. 
(25) G. MontLigzR.—The Necklaced Laughing Thrush. 
Oates, No. 74; Hume, No. 412. 
Common everywhere. 
