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Distribution. — Confined to the Khasia Hills. 



[The nest is similar to that of 2). riificollis, but is a larger, more bulky nest 

 and is generally deeper also in proportion to its breadth. It is composed of 

 small pliant twigs and weed stems, leaves, grasses, rootlets and sometimes 

 a few leaves. The lining is of fine grasses and roots generally almost black 

 in tint. The most common site is a thin straggling bush in which it is placed 

 in some fork three to six feet from the ground but often it is placed in 

 tangles of brambles, blackberries, or raspberries within a foot or so of the 

 ground. On one or tw^o occasions it has been taken from small saplings as 

 high up as 12 feet. 



The eggs are generally two only in number, very rarely three and still 

 more rarely four, and are in general character about half way between the 

 eggs of the genus Garrnlax (inoniliger, etc.,) and the intensely glossy ones 

 of the typical Dryonastes such as sannio.. The surface is very smooth and 

 glossy, but is not so hard and shiny as that of the last mentioned bird, the 

 texture is very fine and close and the shell rather fragile. In colour they 

 are a pale but brilliant green-blue and when freshly taken are most 

 distinctive in tint, but after a year or two are hardly distinguishable 

 from pale, highly glossed eggs of other birds of this group, though darker 

 than any but those of ccerulatus. 



In length they very likewise 1'24" and 1"39" and in breadth between 

 •79" and -86", the average of 14 being 1-32" x -82"— E. C. S. B. ] 



' Dkyoxastes ccerulatus kaukiensis, Rippon. 



The KacJiin Hills Laughing Thrush. 



Rippon, B. B. 0. C. XII., p. 13. (1902) ; Harington, B. N. H. S. J. XIX., 



p. III. id. Ibis. 1914, p. 7. 

 Descrijjtion. — Similar to D. c. subccerulatus, Hume, differs in having the 

 ear-coverts rufescent-brown, instead of white. The tail is tipped with 

 white as in that species. 



Distribution. — The Bhamo Hills above 5,000 feet. 



Nesting. — The nest is of the usual type, the eggs pale blue, measuring 

 l'16x'84 inches. 



Dkyonastes chinensis (Scop.). 



The Black-throated Laughing Thrush. 



Lanius chinensis, Scop, Del. Fl. et Faun. Insubr, ii, p. 86 (1786). 



Dryonastes chinensis, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. VII, p. 455 ; Gates, F. B. I., 

 i, p. 74 ; Harington, J. B. N. H. S., XIV., p. 597. 



Description as in Gates, F. B. I. 



Distribution. — The Southern Shan States and Karennee to Tenasserim 

 and S. Pegu, and extending into China. It has lately been procured in the 

 Northern Shan States by Mr. J. P. Cook. 



I described the eggs of this species in the Journal, Vol. XIV, p. 597, but 

 as I did not obtain the parent bird, I am afraid I am not quite certain as to 

 their identification. Although such a well-known species as a cage bird, I 

 can find nothing else recorded as to its nidification. 



Dryonastes nuchalis (Godwin-Austen). 



Ogle's Laughing Thrush. 



Garrulax nuchalis, G^odi.-kMst. K. M. N. H. (4) XVIII, p. 411, (1876). 

 Dryonastes nuchalis, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. VII, p. 456; Gates, F.B. I., 



i, p.74 ; Baker, Ibis 1906, p. 89. 

 Description as in Gates, F.B.I. 



