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glade, in the forest on Aya Pata, which is about 7000 feet above 

 the sea. Another nest, found at an elevation of about 4500 feet 

 on the 9th June, contained two eggs ; it was placed about 10 feet 

 from the grouud in a small tree in a hedgerow amongst cultivated 

 fields." 



Mr. Hodgson notes from Jaha Powah : — " Found five nests of 

 this species between 18th and 30th May. Builds near the tops of 

 moderate-si/ed trees in open districts, making a very shallow nest 

 of thin elastic grasses sparingly used and without lining. The 

 nest is placed on some horizontal branch against some upright 

 twig, or at some horizontal fork. It is nearly round and has a 

 diameter of about G inches. They lay three or four eggs of a 

 sordid \ernal green clouded with obscure brown." 



The eggs are somewhat lengthened ovals, very much smaller 

 than, though so far as coloration goes very simdar to, those of 

 G. glandarius. The ground-colour in some is a brown stone colour, 

 in others pale greenish \\hite, and intermediate shades occur, and 

 they are very minutely and feebly freckled and mottled over the 

 whole surface with a somewhat pale sepia-brown. This mottling 

 differs much in intensity ; in some few eggs indeed it is absolutely 

 wanting, while in others, though feeble elsewhere, it forms a dis- 

 tinct, though undefined, brownish cap or zone at the large end. 

 The eggs generally have little or no gloss. It is not uncommon 

 to find a few hair-like dark brown lines, more or less zigzag, about 

 the larger end. 



In length they vary from 1"03 to 1-23, and in breadth from 0-78 

 to 0'88 ; but the average of twenty-four eggs is 1*12 by 0-85. 



25. Garrulus leucotis, Hume. The Burmese Jay. 

 Garrulus leucotis, Hume, llmnc, Cat. no. GG9 bis. 



The nest of this Jay has not yet been found, but Capt. Bingham 

 v\ rites : — 



" Like Mr. Da\ison I have found this very handsome Jay 

 affecting only the dry DiUenia and pine-forests so common in the 

 Thoungyeen valley. I have seen it feeding on the ground in such 

 places with Gecinus ni(jnr/eni/s, Ujnqxi Jomjirostrls, and other birds. 

 I shot one specimen, a female, in April, near the Meplay river, 

 that must have had a nest somewhere, which, however, I failed to 

 find, for she had a full-formed but shell-less egg inside her." 



2G. Garrulus bispecularis. Vigors. The Himalayan Jay. 



Garrulus bispecularis, V{g.,Jcrd. B, Ind. ii, p. 307; Hume, Itowjh 

 Draft N. ^- E. no. G69. 



The Himalayan Jay breeds pretty well throughout the lower 

 ranges of the llimainyas. It is nowhere, that I have seen, 

 numerically very abundant, but it is to be met with everywhere. 

 It lays in March and April, and, though I have never taken the 



