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essential distinction. The bill is a little shorter in this species, and 

 the win g a trifle more rounded. 



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It is nearly as abundant as the last in the vicinity of Darjeeling, 

 and its habits do not differ. 



418. Trochalopteron variegatum, Vigors. 



Cinclosoma, apud Vigors, P. Z. S., 1831 — Gould, Cent. H. B., 

 pi. 16— Blyth, Cat. 493 — Horsf, Cat. 296 — Ganza, Nepal. 



The Variegated Laughing-thrush. 



Descr. — Plumage above brownish grey, rusty on the forehead, 

 and cinereous on the head and neck ; a stripe from the nape through 

 the eyes black, surmounted by a narrow white line behind the 

 eye ; ear-coverts dark brown ; wings with a black spot on the 

 primary coverts, and another on the middle of the wings ; the 

 greater coverts rufous ; outer webs of the primaries pale ashy-white, 

 tinged yellowish (probably bright yellow in the fresh bird) ; the 

 last of the primaries and all the secondaries tipped white ; tail, with 

 the tips of four middle feathers, ashy grey, the four outer feathers 

 on each side edged with olive-yellow, and white tipped, and 

 all, except the outer ones, black at the base ; beneath, the chin, 

 throat, and middle of the neck, are black ; the sides of the neck 

 pale rusty whitish, olivaceous on the breast and flanks ; and the 

 abdomen and vent rufous. 



Bill black; legs reddish; irides brown. Length 10 inches; 

 wing 4 ; tail 4^ ; bill at front -j-g- ; tarsus 1 \. 



This species has been sent from Nepal, Kumaon, and Simla, but 

 it does not appear to extend into Sikhim. 



419. Trochalopteron afilne, Hodgson. 



Garrulax, apud Hodgson, J. A. S., XII., 950 — Blyth, Cat. 

 492— Horsf., Cat. 297. 



The Black-faced Laughing-thrush. 



Descr. — Above rufescent olive-brown, more or less mottled 

 with paler on the back ; rump dingy greenish, and the upper tail- 

 coverts rufous ; sides of head, lores, cheeks, and ear-coverts, black, 

 occasionally this hue even suffusing the crown ; shoulder of 



