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DuYONASTES sANNio (Swinhoe). 

 The White-broioed Laughing Thrush, 



Garrulax sannio, Swinhoe, Ibis. 1867, p. 403. 



Dryonastes sannio, Sharpe, Cat, B. M. VII, p. 459 ; Gates, F.B. I. i., p. 76. 



Description as in Gates, F. B. I. 



Distribution. — Manipur, the hills on the eastern borders of Burma, where 

 it is the common Laughing Thrush, above 3,500 ft., and from the Bhamo 

 Hills to the Shan States and extending to S. China. Its eggs have often 

 now been described and are remarkable for their variation in colour from 

 pale blue to white. 



Dryonastes galbantjs (Godwin-Austin). 



Austen's Laughing Thrush. 



Garrulax galbanus, Godn-Aust., P. Z. S., 1874, p. 44 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. 

 VII, p. 445. 

 Dryonastes galbanus, Gates, F. B. I. i, p. 76. 



Description, etc., as in Gates, F. B. I. 



Distribution. — The Manipur and Chin Hills. 



[The nest and eggs have recently been taken by Mr. C. Hopwood in the 

 Chin Hills. He describes both as being similar to those of D. ruficollis and 

 in a letter to me he gives the dimensions as being l"06"x '76". 



With the exception of a single nest taken by myself in N. Cachar many 

 years ago, this is I believe the first recorded nest and eggs of this species. 

 My eggs are practically indistinguishable from those of ruficollis though they 

 measure somewhat over the average of this bird's eggs. — E. C. S. B.] 



Dryonastes c^rulatus. 



The Grey-sided Laughing Thrush. 



Consists of three geographical races which extend from Nepal to Assam 

 north of the Brahmaputra river {D. c. ccsrulatus (Hodgson). The Khasia 

 Hills have their own race in D. c. subctsrulatus (Hume), which possibly 

 may extend to the Chin Hills. This sub-species differs from the first in 

 having its tail feathers tipped with white. In the Bhamo hills, D. c. kauri- 

 ensis (Rippon), is the local representative, this has the tail tipped with white, 

 and the ear-coverts brown instead of white. 



Dryonastes c. c^rulattjs (Hodgson). 



The Nepal Grey-sided Laughing Thrush. 



Cinclosoma ccerulatus, Hodgson, As, Res. XIX, p. 147, (1836). 



Dryonastes ccerulatus, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. VII., p. 461 ; Gates, F. B. I,, i., 



p. 75. 

 Description, etc., as in Gates, F. B. I. 

 Distribution. — Nepal and Sikhim, Dibrugarh, Assam. 



Dryonastes c^rtjlattts subc^rulatus (Hume). 

 The Shillong Laughing Thrush. 



Garrulax subcoarulatus, Hume, S. F. VII., p. 140 (1878), 



Dryonastes subccerulatus, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. VII, p. 462 ; Gates, F. B, I., i., 



p. 76. 

 Description as in Gates, F. B. I. 



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