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CATALOGUE. 
298. PTEROCYCLUS CACHINNANS, Jerdon Sp. 
Crateropus cachinnans, Jerd., Madr. Journ. L. S. X. 
p. 255, t 7. 
Pterocyclus cachinnans, G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, I. 
p. 226. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 372. 
Garrulax cachinnans, Blythj Journ. A. S. Beng. XIV. 
p. 599 ; Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 97. 
Crateropus Lafresnayii, Ad. Delessert, Voy. dans VInd. 
p. 28. 
Crateropus Delessertii, Lafresnaye (nec. Jerdon). 
Laughing Thrush of the JS'eilgherries, Jerd. 
A. B. Madras. From Wight's Collection. 
" This noisy bird is to be met with in all the thick woods on the 
summit of the Keilgherries, and its loud laughing call is often heard 
when the bird itself remains unseen. I have met it in no other 
locality. It is sometimes seen in small flocks, but often wanders 
about alone, though at no great distance from some of its species, 
with whom it continually keeps up a noisy communication as signal 
of the direction it is going, or of the abundance of food obtained. 
They keep chiefly to the lower branches of trees and brushwood ; on 
being observed, they hop and climb up the stem and thick branches 
of the nearest large tree, but they do not appear to ascend to the 
tops of trees. I occasionally, though rarely, observed them hopping 
and feeding on the ground. They fly heavily, and never to any 
distance. The cry of the laughing thrush is very peculiar, and, once 
heard, cannot be forgotten ; it has a sort of cracked Punch and Judy 
laugh, and is no sooner commenced by one than several others take 
up the chorus. The chief food is fruit of various kinds, especially 
the pleasant fruit of the Brazil cherry (Physalis tomentosa), now so 
abundant in most of the woods in the neighbourhood of Ootacamund. 
It also occasionally feeds on caterpillars and other soft-bodied insects. 
On one occasion, I found the nest on a bank overhanging the road, 
on the top of the Nediwuttum Ghaut of the Neilgherries. It was 
made of roots, grass, and moss, and contained four long oval pure 
white eggs." — (Jerd., Madr. Journ. L. S. X. p. 255, et 111. Ind. Om.) 
299. PTEROCYCLUS IMBRICATUS, Blyth Sp. 
Garrulax imbricatus, Blyth, Jov/m. A. 8. Beng. XII. 
^.951; XIV.;?. 599; Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p.m. 
