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GARRULAX RUFICEPS, Gould. 



Red-crowned Garrulax. 



Garrulaoe ruficeps, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 281.— Swinh. in Ibis, 1863, p. 282. 



Three or four species of Garrulax, with white crests or white throats, inhabit the higher regions of India ; 

 these are the G. leucolophus of the Himalayas, its near ally the G. Belangeri of Tenasserim, and the still 

 more nearly allied G. albogularis. This section of the genus finds a representative in the island of Formosa, 

 in the present bird. All these large and conspicuously marked species present little, if any, difference in the 

 colouring and size of the sexes ; and move about the forests in small troops, in search of insects, which, 

 with their larvse, and berries constitute their principal food. 



Speaking of the Garrulaoo rujiceps of Formosa, Mr. Swinhoe says, " This species frequents the central 

 wooded range of mountains, and very rarely descends to the lower hills that flank the Chinese territory. I 

 never met with it alive, and my hunters only succeeded in procuring a single pair. It differs entirely from 

 all the Eastern-Asiatic species of Garrulax, but possesses many characters in common with the G. albogularis, 

 from Bootan and Mussoorie, in India. 



" Lores, space round the eye, and chin black ; crown of the head bright rufous ; cheeks light rufous olive ; 

 upper surface brownish olive ; wings hair-brown, broadly margined with olive, the tertiaries being almost 

 entirely of that colour; tail rich olive-brown, greyer on the two unspotted middle feathers, the next one 

 has a whitish mark at the tip, the third a broad white mark, which increases in size until, on the lateral 

 feathers, it is one inch and four-tenths deep ; throat and lower part of the neck pure white ; centre of the 

 belly less pure; flanks, axillaries, and thighs buff; vent pale buff; under sides of the shafts of the primaries 

 and tail-feathers whitish ; under edges of the inner quills rufescent ; bill black; legs, toes, and claws light 

 flesh-brown. 



" In the pair I possess, there is scarcely any difference as to size or colour." 



The figures are of the size of life. 



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