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Description. — General colour above earthy brown washed with olive, head 

 paler ; forehead dove-grey ; lores dark-brown ; ear-coverts pale-brown, 

 faintly tipped with white, back absolutely tipped dark brown with 

 white lips ; tail ashy, washed with golden green ; outer edge of primaries 

 pale greyish blue ; secondaries green; chin, throat, and breast, pale cho- 

 colate, each feather faintly edge with white ; flanks greyish olive ; abdomen 

 and undertail coverts vinous-brown. 



Wing : 95-115 mm. ; tail 145 mm. ; culmen 15 mm. 



Distribution. — W. Szechuen, Moupin, Chensi, Ta-Tsien-Lou and possibly 

 Tibet. 



Trochalopterum henrici, Oustalet. 

 Prince Henry'' s Laughing Thrush, 



Trochalo-pterum henrici, Oustalet, Ann. Sci. Nat. (7), xii., p. 274 (1891) ; 

 Hartert, Pal. Vog. i., p. 632. 



Garrulax tibetanus. Dresser, P. Z. I., 1905, p. 54 ; O. Grant, Bui. B. O. 

 C, XV., p. 94. 



Desciiption. — Upper plumage greyish olive brown; crown slightly darker, 

 lores and a patch in front of and behind the eye chocolate ; a short white 

 supercilium over the eye ; ear-coverts dark chocolate ; and a broad white 

 stripe on the cheeks ; primaries edged greyish ; under parts the same 

 colour as upper plumage but paler ; under tail coverts chocolate. 



Wing 110-115 mm ; tail 150 mm ; cwlmen 23 mm. 



Distribution. — Tibet. It has lately been procured by Capt. F. M. Bailey 

 at Shoaka, 9,000 ft., in the Mishmi Hills. 



GROUP II. 



Babblers. 



Argya and Crateropus. 



Argya, Lesson, (1831). 



Gates, F.B.I., i., p. 105. 



" The birds of this genus differ from the Laughing Thrushes in many 

 points of structure. The covering membrane of the nostril is partially 

 clothed with plumes and the feathers of the forehead and those round the 

 base of the bill are short, firm and close. The tail is also relatively much 

 longer and greatly graduated, each outer feather being only about half the 

 length of the tail. ' (Oates). 



The Argya have a slightly more pointed wing. The first three primaries 

 being graduated ; the bill is slightly curved, and the nostrils exposed, 

 with no over-hanging hairs ; rictal bristles very short. They all lay charac- 

 teristic rich, "verditer blue " eggs, which are highly glossy and spotless. 



Argya and Crater-opus have a more Western habitat to the other genera 

 comprising the Timeliides, and are found in Africa as well as India ; Burma 

 appears to be their most Easternly limit. 



Argya eariii, Blyth. 



The Striated Babbler, 



Malacocercus eariii, Blyth, J.A.S.B. xiii, p. 369 (1844). 



Argya eariii, Sharpe, Oat. B.M. vii, p. 392 ; Gates, F.B.I, i., p. 105. 



Description. — As in Oates, F.B.I. 



Distribution. — Outch and Indus Valley ; and from the Saharanpur District, 

 along the base of the Himalayas to Behar ; Bengal to Assam and south- 

 wards from the Bhamo District to Pegu. 



