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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
band of pale grey connecting the two neck-patches encircles the breast^ the 
grey running down and suffusing the whole upper part of the abdomen as 
well as a central band down the abdomen reaching nearly to the vent ; 
sides of the abdomen^ flanks,, vent and under tail-coverts olive-brown, 
slightly rufescent. 
Legs and feet very dark brown ; claws paler ; bill black ; irides generally 
lake-red, sometimes crimson. {Davison.) 
Length 11-8 inches, tail 5*3, wing 5*3, tarsus I'S, bill from gape 1'4. 
The female is of the same size. 
TickelFs Laughing-Thrush was discovered by Col. Tickell on Mooleyit 
mountain in Tenasserim at elevations from 3000 to 5000 feet. Mr. Davi- 
son met with it on the same mountain from 3500 feet to the summit. It 
is not known to occur elsewhere as yet. 
Mr. Davison remarks : — " This species is not by any means uncommon, 
occurring in small flocks of twenty or more, and keeping entirely, so far 
as I have observed, to the forest, especially to the ravines where this is 
densest.''^ He adds that it is very shy and beats a rapid retreat at the 
approach of anybody. It is a very clamorous bird. 
39. GAREULAX CHINENSIS. 
THE BLACK-THROATED LAUGHING-THRUSH. 
Lanius chinensis, Scop. Del. Fl. et Faun. Insub. ii. p. 86. Garrulax chinensis, 
Wald. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 549 • £1. B. Burm. p. 107 ; Hume Sf Dav: S. F. vi. 
p. 289 ; Dav. et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 191 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 96. 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead, lores, round the eye and a 
line over the ear- coverts black ; a patch below the lores, chin and throat 
also black ; cheeks and ear- coverts white ; forehead and crown dark 
cinereous, the front part of the latter dashed with white ; sides of the neck, 
back, rump, scapulars, upper tail-coverts, upper wing-coverts and tertiaries 
ferruginous ashy ; primaries and secondaries brown, the outer webs edged 
with the colour of the back; lower plumage brown, tinged with ferruginous; 
bases of the tail-feathers like the back, the terminal portions black ; the 
region of the vent ferruginous. 
Iris red ; bill black ; mouth plumbeous ; eyelids plumbeous ; legs fleshy 
brown; claws horn -colour. 
Length 10'6 inches, tail 4<'7^ wing 4'5, tarsus 1*6, bill from gape 1*2. 
The female is the same size. 
The Black-throated Laughing-Thrush occurs rarely in Pegu. I procured 
it once or twice near Kyeikpadein and again in the forests between Nyoun- 
lay-bin and Shwaygheen on the west of the Sittang river. Mr. Davison 
