175 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. VIII. 
(30) I. ausreni.—The Cachar Laughing-Ihrush. 
Oates, No. 81; Hume, No. 417, Bis. 
I note this bird simply on the strength of its name. I have not 
either volume III or volume XI of Stray Feathers with me to refer te, 
and do not know in what part of Cachar Godwin-Austen obtained it. 
(31) TRocHALOPTERUM CHRYSOPTERUM.—The LHastern Yellow- 
winged Laughing-Thrush. 
Oates, No. 84 ; Hume No. 415, Bis. 
The habits, nidification, and eggs of this bird are just the same as 
those of 7’. phaenicium. The eggs average 1:1" by -76". 
_ (82) T. pHaxicrtum.—The Crimson-winged Laughing-Thrush. 
Oates, No. 92; Hume, No. 420. 
Common everywhere. 
(33) T. sguamatum.—The Blue-winged Laughing-Thrush. 
Oates, No. 92; Lume, No. 420. 
I have seen no birds here of the 7. melanurum type, all having 
bronze tails, not black. I believe that eventually T. melanurum will 
prove distinct from 7. squamatum. 
Oates is undoubtedly right in what he says regarding the colour 
of the lores in relation to the sex of this species, two females taken by 
me on their nests in May, 1891, both had grey lores; a male shot the 
same month had lores which might have been described as fulvous- 
grey. 
(34) T. vircatum.—The Manipur Streaked Laughing-Thrush. 
Oates, No. 98 ; Hume, No, 425, Bis. 
Is not very rare on the high peaks to the east of the district where 
it breeds. 
The nest is much like that of Ianthocinela, but is more stoutly built 
and much deeper. The tendrils also, of which it is to a great extent 
composed, are always much mixed with grasses, roots and fine bents, 
and sometimes also with a few bamboo leaves, the last more especially 
when it is built close to the ground. The lining is always of fern roots 
and fern stalks with a few moss roots intermixed. Asa rule I have 
found the nests either in thick high bushes or in small trees standing 
amongst the same and built between four and eight feet from the 
ground, but on more than one occasion I have taken it from a mass of 
