430 NOYITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXV. 1918. 



GARRULVS BISPECULARIS AND ITS ALLIES, WITH LIST 

 OF ALL FORMS OF GARRULVS. 



By ERNST HARTERT, Ph.D. 



" ^ I "'HE Himalayan Jay " was rather poorly treated by Gates in the Fauna 

 -L of British India, Birds, i. pj3. 39, 40 (1889). Twelve years before, Cat. 

 B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 100, Sharpe had already remarked that " Specimens from 

 the North-western Himalayas are rather paler on the head and have longer bills 

 than those from Nepal and Sikkim." No notice was taken of this remark, 

 though Sharpe had only a very poor material, \\'hile Gates had the fine material 

 of the Hume collection, including the very dark race from Shillong. 



After Gates' volume several new forms have been described from the hills 

 of Burma and Yunnan. I have now examined the \^onderful material in the 

 British Museum and the, in this case, rather poor one at Tring, and have conic 

 to the following conclusions : 



1. Garrulus bispecularis bispecularis Vig. 



Garrulus bispecularis Vigors, Pruc. Committee Zool. Soc. London, part. i. p. 7 (1S3I — Western 



Himalaya). 

 Garrulus ornatus Gray, Gray & Hardwicke's III. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 23. fig. 2 (1832— Almora in Kumaon). 



Considerably paler than the following forms. 

 Wings, 163-178 mm. Iris said to be brown! 

 Western Himalaya from Cashmere to Western Nepal. 



2. Garrulus bispecularis interstinctus subsjj. nov. 



Upperside darker and more reddish brown, including the forehead, under- 

 side also darker, throat as dark as upper part of abdomen. Wing, 157-170 mm. 



Hab. : Silvkim and eastern part of Nepal. Probably through Bhutan to 

 the Mishmi and Dafla Hills, as a skin from the latter (E. C. S. Baker in litt.) is in 

 the Indian Museum. 



Type : ad. (apparently S) Darjiling, 1883 (exchanged from Giglioli. In 

 Tring Museum). 



Examined G skins in the British and 3 m the Tring Museum. 



3. Garrulus bispecularis persaturatus subsp. nov. 



Still darker and more brownish than G. h. interstinctus. Wing, 162-176 mm. 



Hab. : Khasia Hills (Shillong), found by E. C. Stuart Baker also in Cachar 

 and Manipur, where it appears to be a rare straggler. E. C. S. Baker (in litt.) 

 says that Tytler obtained also a specimen in the Naga Hills, from where eggs of 

 a jay were brought to Baker. 



Type: <j ad. Shillong, 20 x. 1877. J. Cockburn leg. (British Museum). 



