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THE CHESTNUT-HEADED LAUGHING-THRUSH. 39 
found it in Tenasserim from Pahpoon down to Meetan at the foot of Moo- 
ley it but not common_, apparently, anywhere. Capt. Bingham notes its 
occurrence in the Thoungyeen valley. 
I found the specimens I procured near Kyeikpadein frequenting thin 
jungle, but on other occasions I noticed it in heavy forest. I did not hear 
their note, but Mr. Davison states that is not so harsh nor so loud as 
in the other Laughing-Thrushes. It goes about in small parties and 
occasionally in pairs only. 
Genus TEOCHALOPTEEUM, Hodgs. 
40. TROCHALOPTEEUM MELANOSTIGMA. 
THE CHESTNUT-HEADED LAUGHING-THHUSH. 
Trochalopteron melanostigma, Bl. J. A. S. B. xxiv, p. 268 ; id. B. Burm. p. 108 ; 
Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 464; Hume Sf Uav. S. F. vi. p. 291 ; Hume, S. F. 
viii. p. 96. 
Description. — Male and female. The base of the forehead, the lores, 
cheeks and chin black, the black of the lores extending slightly over the 
eye ; a short supercilium, the ear- coverts and the sides of the nape silvery 
grey, the shafts blackish ; the whole top of head contracting to a point on 
the nape bright chestnut ; back, rump, lesser wing-coverts and the tail- 
coverts olive-brown, tinged with ochraceous on the back ; greater wing- 
coverts olive-brown, tipped with ferruginous; primary- coverts black; wings 
olive-yellow on the outer webs, dark brown on the inner; tail entirely dull 
olive-yellow; throat and upper breast ochraceous red, shading off into 
paler ochraceous on the sides of the neck, breast and central portion of the 
abdomen ; sides of the abdomen, flanks and under tail-coverts olive-grey. 
Legs, feet and claws very pale brown to reddish brown ; bill black ; 
irides brown or hazel-nut brown. [Davison.) 
Length lO'S inches, tail 4*2, wing 4*2, tarsus 1*5, bill from gape 1"2. 
The female is of the same size. 
The Chestnut-Headed Laughing-Thrush was discovered by Col. Tickell 
on Mooleyit at an elevation of 7500 feet. Mr. Davison also met with it 
on that mountain at elevations above 3000 feet. He also procured it 
in the pine-forests of the Salween river. It has also been observed 
by Capt. Wardlaw Eamsay in Karennee at an elevation of 5000 feet. 
According to Mr. Davison, these birds keep m parties of six or eight, 
feeding chiefly on the ground and keeping much in the brushwood. They 
are neither very noisy nor very silent, uttering from time to time a fine 
whistling call. They appear to feed exclusively on insects. 
