Grenus GAEEULAX. 
Bill straighter than in the last genus ; culmen straight at the base, gonys-angle pronounced. 
Nostrils oval, placed well forward and exposed. Wings longer than in Malacocercus, the 3rd 
quill much shorter than the 4th, the 6th and 6th the longest. Tail rather long, graduated and 
lax. Legs and feet very stout. Tarsus shielded with three wide scutae. Hind toe and claw very 
large. 
GAEEULAX CINEEEIFEOXS. 
(THE ASHY-HEADED BABBLER.) 
(Peculiar to Ceylon.) 
Garrulax cinereifrons, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 18ol, xx. p. 176 ; Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 122 
(1852); Layard, Ann, & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1853, xii. p. 270 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 300 ; 
Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 448; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 20. 
Laughing Thrush, The Ashy-headed Garrulax, Kelaart. 
Ad. siipi-iv brunneiis, alis dorso eoncoloribus, primariis externis grisescenti-brunneo lavatis : rectricibus brunneis, extus 
rufeseeiiti marginatis : pileo nucbaque cinereis, hac brunneo lavata : loris et facie lateral! tota cinereis : genis et 
corpore subtiis toto rufescenti-fulvis, abdomine pallidiore : mento ipso albido : subalaribus rufesceuti-fulvis : remi- 
gibus infra brunneis intus fulvescentibus : rostro nigro : pedibua plumbescenti-nigris : iride alba. 
Adxdt male and female. Length 9-6 to lO'O inches ; wing 4-4 to 4-8 ; tail 4-0 to 4-3 ; tarsus 1-4 to 1-5 ; mid toe and 
claw 1‘25 to 1'3 ; hind toe 0’6, claw (straight) 0‘45 ; bill to gape 1’25. 
Iris white ; eyelid plumbeous ; bill black, inside of mouth greenish yellow ; legs and feet plumbeous brown ; claws 
dusky horny ; posterior part of tarsus bluish. 
Lores, face, and head ashy or cinereous grey, blending at the nape into the rufous-brown of the sides of the neck, upper 
surface, wings, and tail ; the first 3 or 4 primaries with a pale edge, and the inner webs of the quills brown ; tail 
deeper in hue than the wings ; chin albescent, blending into the fulvescent rufous of the fore neck and under 
surface ; abdomen more fulvescent than the breast, the concealed portion of the feathers there being albescent ; 
flanks and under tail-coverts dusky rufescent brown ; lower feathers of the thighs cinereous, under wing-coverts 
rufous. On the centre of the throat the colour is brighter than elsewhere. 
Young. Iris dull grey, with a dark outer circle ; bill black, the gape and base of lower mandible yellowish ; eyelid 
greenish yellow ; legs and feet olivaceous brown, soles yellowish fleshy, claws yellowish horn. 
Forehead and head as in the adult, the nasal plumes dark, and the grey of the crown not continued so far back ; the 
back is deeper rufous than the adult, and the wing-coverts likewise are more intense ; chin not so wliite and the 
throat and under surface more fulvescent. In the first plumage the feathers of the chest and breast are fluffy. 
This dress appears to be quickly put off, and in the next stage or yearling plumage the iris is pearly grey or in 
some white, with a tinge of reddish ; gape and eyelid yellow ; legs and feet bluish brown. There is scarcely 
any percejjtible difference in the grey of the occiput, but the fore neck is paler or more fulvescent. 
Ohs. (7. delesserti, the Wynaad Laughing Thrush, is allied to the present species. Mr. Bourdillon’s dimensions of a 
specimen in the flesh are : — Length 9-0 inches, wing 4-3, tail 4-0, tarsus 1'45. It differs from Q. cinereifrons in 
having the under mandible yellow at the base, and the fore neck and breast white, changing into cinereous grey on 
the flanks. 
Distribution. — The Ashy- headed Babbler was discovered by Dr. Kelaart ; it is not recorded in what 
district he found it first, for Layard only writes of it as follows : — “ I do not know where he (Kelaart) found 
it ; but I obtained several specimens along the banks of the Kaluganga, about forty miles inland from Kalatura 
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