173. Trochalopteron lineatum gilgit

(173) Trochalopteron lineatum gilgit Hartert.
THE GILGIT STREAKED LAUGHING-THRUSH.
Trochalopterum lineatum gilgit, Fauna B. I., Birds, 2nd ed., vol. i, p. 182.
The Gilgit race of Streaked Laughing Thrush is found from Chitral, the Khagan and Kurram Valleys, Gilgit, North Kashmir, extending to “Baltistan in Indus Valley as far East as Shardu ” (Ludlow).
There is nothing on record as to the breeding of this subspecies. Ward says it is not rare in. Gilgit and Whitehead says it is common up to 7,000 feet in Summer on the Kohat and Kurram frontiers.
The only nests taken are apparently one by Ward containing four eggs at Shirol, Gilgit, on the 21st May and one by Harington, with three eggs, taken in the Khagan Valley at 7,000 feet on the 5th June.
Ward in epistola, writes : “So far as I remember the nest is not different in any way from those of other Striated (? Streaked) Laughing Thrushes” : whilst on Harington’s data-ticket is written : “Placed on stump, 7,000 ft., the bird shot, eggs incubated.”
The average of the seven eggs is 24.9 x 18.5 mm., whilst in appear¬ance they can be matched by any number of the preceding bird’s eggs.