. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . y (Bhutea).. Description. Similar to T. en/throcephalum, but the forehead isrufous with black shafts and the anterior portion of the crowndeep grey, each feather black in the centre ; the ear-coverts are- TEOCHALOPTERUM. 165 black with pinkish-white edges and the lores, cheeks, chiu andupper throat are l)lack. The upper tail-coverts are olive-green. Colours of soft parts. Bill dark horny-brown or blackish brown;legs dark or yellowish brown ; iris grey-brown ; red{Jerdon). Measurements. Total length about 260 to 270 mm.; wing 10
. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . y (Bhutea).. Description. Similar to T. en/throcephalum, but the forehead isrufous with black shafts and the anterior portion of the crowndeep grey, each feather black in the centre ; the ear-coverts are- TEOCHALOPTERUM. 165 black with pinkish-white edges and the lores, cheeks, chiu andupper throat are l)lack. The upper tail-coverts are olive-green. Colours of soft parts. Bill dark horny-brown or blackish brown;legs dark or yellowish brown ; iris grey-brown ; red{Jerdon). Measurements. Total length about 260 to 270 mm.; wing 100to 105 mm.; tail 112 to 115 mm.; tarsus about 38 mm.; culmenabout 21 to 22 mm. Distribution. Eastern Nepal to the Daphla and Mikir Hills inAssam. Nidification. Breeds throughout its range in the months ofApril, May and early June at elevations of 5,500 feet nest is a massive deep cup made of leaves, grass and a largeproportion of moss, bound together with tendrils and roots. Thelining generally consists of fine roots with an inner lining of. Fig. 29.—Head of T. c. nigrimcntum. matted dead leaves, but this latter is not always present. Mostnests are placed in thick bushes, but others mav be found on smallsaplings, and the site selected is either the fringe of forest andheavy jungle or scrub-jungle and secondary growth. The eggsnumber two or three and are like those of the rest of the genus,but are generally very sparsely marked. Seventeen eggs averageabout 28-7 x 21-1 mm. Habits. This is a bird of high elevations from 5,000 up to9,000 feet or more. It has the usual habits of the genus and isquite common in the woods round about Darjeeling, where in theearly morning and evening it may often be surprised on the roadsand jungle paths, limiting in small parties for insects in the cattledroppings, but scuttling off promptly into cover when disturbed. (151) Trochalopterum erythrocephalum godwini. Godwin-Austens Red-headed Lauguing-Thrush. Trochalopterum erythrocephalum
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