(155) Trochalopterum erythrocephalum ramsayi.
The Karrenni Red-headed Laughing-Thrush.
- Trochalopterum ramsayi Ogilvie-Grant, Bull. B. O. C., xiv, p. 19 (1904) (Karennee).
Vernacular names. None recorded.
Description. Differs from the last bird in having the chestnut of the chin and throat continued over the entire breast and belly.
Colours of soft parts. "Iris deep chocolate; bill black; legs pinkish brown."
Measurements. Total length about 254 mm.; wing 101 to 104 mm.; tail about 114 mm.; tarsus about 40 mm.; culmen about 20 mm.
Distribution. Karenni, extending to the pine-forests in the Salween District.
Nidification and Habits. Nothing recorded.
Trochalopterum phœniceum
Key to Subspecies.
| A. |
Tail broadly tipped with orange.
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| a. |
General plumage darker
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T. p. phœniceum, p. 168. |
| b. |
General plumage paler
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T. p. bakeri, p. 169. |
| B. |
Tail narrowly edged with ochraceous
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T. p. ripponi, p. 170. |
(156) Trochalopterum phœniceum phœniceum.
The Assam Crimson-winged Laughing-Thrush.
- Ianthocinda phœnicea Gould, Icon. Av., pl. 3 (1837) (Nepal).
- Trochalopterum phœniceum. Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 93.
Vernacular names. Tilji-pho (Lepcha); Repcha (Bhut.).
Description. Lores, cheeks, ear-coverts, round the eye and a patch on the side of the neck crimson; a short supercilium black; upper plumage olive-brown, the feathers of the crown with partially concealed black margins; tail black, broadly tipped with orange and outermost feathers washed with orange throughout; wing-coverts olive-brown; primary-coverts dusky edged with olive-brown; winglet suffused with crimson on the outer webs and outermost coverts edged with the same; outer webs of primaries edged with crimson and yellow, the former increasing and latter decreasing in extent inwards; secondaries with centre of outer webs edged blue, the terminal portions suffused with crimson, the bases with olive-green; the whole lower plumage fulvous olive-brown, tinged with ashy on the abdomen; under tail-coverts black, broadly tipped with crimson.
