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BIE,DS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
the breast above tbe black collar white, tinged with rusty near the collar ; 
the remaining lower plumage clear fulvous, turning to whitish on the abdo- 
men; primaries and secondaries brown on the inner webs, cinereous on the 
outer ; tertiaries wholly cinereous ; centre pair of tail-feathers like the 
tertiaries ; the others cinereous at the base, then black and broadly tipped 
with white ; the pair next the central ones is usually like the other laterals^ 
but occasionally wholly cinereous. 
Iris bright yellow ; eyelids dull purple ; bill dark horn, the tip and 
margins pale horn ; legs light plumbeous ; claws pale horn-colour. The 
iris is sometimes greenish yellow, which probably indicates immaturity. 
Length 12 inches, tail 4'9, wing 5_, tarsus 1-7, bill from gape 1*3. The 
female is smaller. 
The Necklaced Laughing-Thrush is found over the whole o£ Pegu in 
well- wooded localities. Mr. Blyth records it from Arrakan. Mr. Davison 
found it very common throughout Tenasserim as far south as Tavoy, and 
Capt. Bingham says that it is found in the ThouDgyeen valley. Capt. 
Wardlaw Ramsay did not meet with it further east than the Karin hills. 
It has a considerable range, being found throughout the Indo-Barmese 
countries and in the Himalayas from Assam to Sikhim. 
I have found the nest of this Laughing-Thrush in Pegu in June and 
July. It resembles that of G. belangeri. The eggs, however, are blue. 
37. GARRULAX PECTORALIS. 
THE BLACK-GORGETED LAUGHING-THRUSH. 
lanthocincla pectpralis, (?omM, P, Z. S. 1835, p. 186. Garrulax pectoralis, Je;-«f . 
B. Ind. ii. p. 39 j Hume^ Nests and Eggs, p. 256 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 108 ; Hume, 
8. F. iii. p. 122 ; Oates, S. F. v. p. 156; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 463; 
Hume Sf Dav. S. F. vi. p. 291 ; Hume, S. F. viii. pp. 96, 169 ; Bingham, S. F. 
ix. p. 181 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 208. 
Description. — Male and female. Very like G. moniliger, differing chiefly 
in being much larger. The ear-coverts vary in colour more than in 
G. moniliger, being often black, white, or a combination of both these with 
each other and with grey, rufous and other tints. 
Upper mandible dark horn-colour, lower bluish horn at the base and tip 
and darker horn in the middle ; mouth bluish ; iris orange-brown ; eyelids 
and orbital skin dusky blue ; edges of the eyelids orange-yellow ; legs light 
plumbeous; claws pale horn. 
Length 12*7 inches, tail 5*1, wing 5*7, tarsus 1*85, bill from gape 1*5. 
The female is smaller. 
