20. GAERULUS. 



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rufous than the breast ; least wing-coverts greyish like the scapu- 

 lars, the median ones inclining externally to chestnut ; bastard wing 

 and primary- coverts cobalt-blue, barred with black, the interspaces 

 more or less inclining to white, and shaded with purple along the 

 black bars ; the greater scries velvety black, the outermost barred 

 with black and cobalt, like the others ; quills blackish, the primaries 

 externally ashy white, the secondaries white for two thirds of outer 

 web, faintly barred witli black and cobalt near the base, the inner- 

 most secondaries chestnut-red, black at tip, the next two feathers 

 with a dash of chestnut on the outer web ; tail black, with a few 

 indications of greyish blue bars near the base ; bill black ; " iris 

 dusky brown " {Dybowsli, MS.). Total length 12-5 inches, culmen 

 1-2, wing 6-75, tail 6-2, tarsus 1-5. 



Ohs. There seems to be no difference in specimens from Japan, 

 Siberia, and the Altai Mountains. A pair collected in the Baikal 

 district by Dr. Dybowski measiu'e as follows : — 



Total 



leiigtli. Wing. Tail. Tarsus, 



in. in.' in. in. 



a. cJ ad. KuUuk 130 6-85 6-3 1-6 



6. $ ad. Kultuk 13-5 6-7 6-2 1-55 



Hub. Ural Mountains, across the whole of Siberia to Japan and 

 Northern China. 



a. Ad. sk. Altai Mountains. Purchased. 



b. (S ad sk. Ussuri river (Dyboiu/ki). Warsaw Museum [P.]. 

 C-, d. (S 2 ad. sk. Kultuk, southern part of Dr. Dybowski [P.J. 



Lake Baikal. 

 f. Ad. sk. Hakodadi, Japan, Oct. lo, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



18Uo ( Whitely ). 



f. (S ad. sk. Hakodadi, Japan, Oct. 23, J. Gould, Esq. 



18C5 ( Whitely). 



g. $ ad. sk. Hakodadi, Japan, Nov. 22, J. Gould, Esq. 



18G5 ( Whitely). 



6. Garrulus atricapillus. 



Garrulus atricapillus, Geoffr. Sf.-Hilmre, Etud. Zool. fasc. i. ; Dresser, 



B. Eur. part xx. 

 Ciarrulus striduns, Ilempr. ^ Ehrenb. Symb. Phys. fol. l. 

 (lanulus melanocephalus, Gene, Mem. Accud. Turino, xxxvii. p. 298; 



Bp. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 82 ; Bree, B. Eur. i. p. 144. 

 Garrulus iliceti, Licht. Notnencl. p. 9. 



Adult female. General colour above clear vinaceous, washed ^ith 

 grey, the rump and upper tail-coverts pure white : wiugs and tail 

 much as in G. ceri'iccdis ; nasal bristles white, washed with vinaceous 

 at the tip ; forehead, feathers round the eye, a broad eyebrow, and 

 the sides of the face and nock, as well as tlie throat, white ; a broad 

 malar bar of black ; rest of under surface pale vinaceous, deeper on 

 the sides of the body and under wing-coverts, and inclining to ])uffy 

 white on the centre of the abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts. 

 Total length 12-7 inches, culmen 1-2, wing 6-7, tail 6, tarsus l-<i. 



