96 COKVID^. 



4. Garrulus minor. 



Garrulus miuor, J. Ven: Rev. et Mag. dc Zoul. 1857, p. 439, pi. 14 ; 

 Locke, Cat. Mamm. t^c. Alger, p. 52 ; id. E.xpl. Scient. AlgSr. 

 Ois. p. 122. 



Adult. Head and neck vinous red, the forehead whitish, with 

 broad black centres to the frontal plumes as well as to those of the 

 crown, the hindermost of which have indistinct transverse rays ; 

 nasal bristles buffy white, tipped with black; a small eyebrow, 

 feathers round the eye, and ear-coverts white, the latter vinous red 

 on their hinder part ; a broad malar streak of black ; back and sca- 

 pulars grey, the latter with a slight tinge of vinous ; lower rump 

 and upper tail-coverts white ; tail brownish black, with a few greyish 

 blue bars near the base ; lesser wing-coverts grey like the back, the 

 median ones inclining to chestnut at the tip, some of the latter with 

 faint transverse rays of grey ; bastard wing and primary-coverts 

 bright cobalt, with narrow black cross bars, some of the interspaces 

 inclining to silvery white, the rest of the wing-coverts velvety 

 black, the outer ones barred with black and cobalt, like the primary- 

 coverts ; quills black, the primaries externally ashy white, the 

 secondaries white for basal half of outer web, shaded with blue near 

 the extreme base, the innermost secondaries black, with chestnut 

 base ; throat white ; breast and sides of body pale vinous red, deeper 

 on the flanks, the shaft-streaks wliite ; centre of the abdomen, thighs, 

 and under tail-coverts white, the latter pure white ; under wing- 

 coverts deep vinous ; biU brownish. Total length 12 inches, culmen 

 I'l, wing 6-8, tail 6, tarsus 1'65. 



Ilab. Algeria. 



a. Ad. St. Algeria. Turchas. d. 



6. Garrulus brandti. 



Garrulus brandti, Eveisyn. Add. Pall. Zoogr. iii. p. 8 ; Ilartl. Bev. 

 Zonl. 1845, p. 52; Bp. Consp. i. p. 376 ; id. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 82 

 Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 220 ; Schl. Mtts. P.-B. Coraces, p. 59 

 Whitehj, Ihis, 1867, p. 200, pl. iii. ; Gray, lland-l. B. ii. p. 2 

 Sxi-inh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 382 ; David, N. Arch. Mm. vii. Bull. 

 p. 9 ; Dresser, B. Eur. pt. xvi. 



Garrulus glandarius, var. brandti, Midd. Sibir. Beis. p. 157 ; Badde, 

 Beis. Ost-Sibir. ii. p. 204; Schrenck, Beis. Arnurl. p. 316. 



Adult (Altai Mountains). Upper surface of body grey, somewhat 

 tinged with vinous on the rump, the upper tail-coverts white ; head 

 and neck rufous, the nasal bristles tipped with black, the frontal 

 plumes spotted and the crown streaked with black ; feathers round 

 the eye mottled with black markings ; ear-coverts and sides of neck 

 rufous ; cheeks black, forming a very broad moustache ; throat fid- 

 vescent, with white shaft-streaks ; rest of under surface pale vinous 

 rod, the fore neck and chest washed with rufous like the neck, the 

 flanks washed with grey ; the lower abdomen and thighs isabelline 

 colour ; under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts rather more 



