54	CHATEROPODIM.
eggs occur in this family, but I have seen none like them.    They
are of course entirely unspotted.
In length they vary from 1*16 to 1'25, and in breadth from 0-8
to OS6; but the average of some twenty eggs measured is 1*22
by 0-83.
78. lanthocincla ocellata (Yig.).    The White-spotted
Laughing- Thrush.
G-arrulax ocellatus ( Vip.), Jerd. B. Ind. ii, p. 41 ; Hume, Rough
Draft N. # E. bo. 414.
. I know nothing personally of the niclification of the "White-
spotted Laughing-Thrush, which breeds nowhere, so far as I. know,
west of Nepal, but I had a nest with a couple of eggs and one of the
parent-birds sent me from Darjeeling. The nest was taken in May
in one of the low warm valleys leading to the Great Eunjeet, and
is said to have been placed close to the ground in a thick clump of
fern and grass. The nest is chiefly composed of these, intermingled
with moss and roots, and is a large loose structure some 7 inches
iu diameter.
Mr. Blyth remarked in ' The Ibis ' (1867) that this species was
" surely a Troclialopteron rather than a Gawulcus" and the eggs
seern to confirm this view. These are long, cylindrical ovals, very
obtuse even at the smaller end. They are about the same size as
those of Garmlax cdbigularis, with a very delicate pale blue ground
and little or no gloss. One egg is spotless ; the other has a few
chocolate-brown specks or spots towards the large end. They
measure -1'18 by 0-86 and 1-25 by 0-85.
80. lanthocincla rufigularis, Grould.    The Rufous-chinned
Laughing- Thrush.
Trochalopteron rufogulare (Gould), Jerd. JB. Ind. ii_; p. 47;
Rough Draft N. $ E. no. 421.
Common as this species is about Simla, I have never yet secured
the nest, and know nothing certain about the eggs.
Captain Hutton says :—" This species appears usually in pairs,
sometimes in a family of four or*five. It breeds in May, in which
month I took a nest, at about 6500 feet elevation, in a retired
and wooded glen; it was composed of small twigs externally and
lined with the fine black fibres of lichens. The nest was placed on
a horizontal bough, about 7 feet from the ground, and contained
three pure white eggs. Size 1-12 by 0'69; shape ordinary. The
stomach of the old bird contained sand, seed, and the remains of
wasps."
One egg that I possess of this species I owe to Captain Hutton,
•and it is of the Pomatorhinus type—a long oval, slightly pointed
pure white egg, with but little gloss, measuring 1*08 by 0'75.