98 CORVID^. 



Adult male. Similar to tbe female, showing less grey on the 

 back and rather more on the chest ; the face and throat somewhat 

 washed with a vinous tinge. Total length 14o inches, culracn 1-4, 

 wing 7"l5. tail 7, tarsus I'To. 



dbs. Garniltis africajnllus and G. h-i/nicl-ii are by no means so 

 different as Mr. Dresser demonstrates in his 'Birds of Europe.' 

 Some specimens of the latter have the forehead nearly as white as 

 in Syrian or Palestine birds ; and although certain examples of G. 

 kri/nicl-ii are very rich vinous on the sides of the face, others are 

 whitish, with very little vinous tinge. Although 1 keep them distinct 

 for the present, I should not be sui-prised to learn that a large series 

 showed a gradual transition from one form to the other. 



Bab. Syria and Palestine eastwards into Persia. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Samaria. Canon Tristram [C.l. 



b. d ad. sk. Plain of Esdraelon. Canon Tristram [C.]. 



c. d ad. sk. Oak-forest, near Shiraz, June 1870. Major St. John [C.J. 



7. Garrulus cervicalis. 



Garrubis cervicalis, £p. C. R. xx.\vii. p. 828 ; Loche, Evpl. Sci. Alger. 



i. p. 120 (18(37); Dresser, B. Eur. part xix. (1873); Bp. C. R. 



xxxvii. p. 828 (18o3). 

 Garrulus melauocephalus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 375 {nee Gene) ; Malh. 



Bull. Soc. N. 11. Moselle, Metz, 7th cahier, p. 24 (1853) ; Schl. Mvs. 



P.-B. Coraces, p. 59 (pt.). 

 Garrulus atiicapillus, Levaill. Jun., Expl. Sci. Alger. Atlas, pi. 6 



(1855, tiec Geoffr.). 

 Garrulus krynicki, Fritsch, Vog. Eur. tab. 27. fig. 11 {nee Kalecz.). 



Adult. Crown of head black, the forehead white, with, black 

 centres, the occiput with a few black streaks, and slightly shaded 

 with grey ; nape, hind neck, and sides of neck deep vinaceous red ; 

 the entire back pale ashy grey, slightly tinged with vinaceous on 

 the rump, the lower part of which is white, like the upper tail- 

 coverts ; tail brownish black, bluish grey at base, and barred with 

 the same colour for more than half the length of the centre feathers ; 

 wing-coverts grey, the least coverts barred with chestnut, the median 

 series broadly chestnut at tip ; the greater series velvety black, the 

 outermost barred with blue and black, the bastard wing and the 

 primarj'-coverts also cobalt-blue, narrowly barred with black ; quills 

 brownish black, externally greyish white ; the secondaries white for 

 two thirds of the outer web, with slight indications of blue bars, the 

 innermost black, inclining to chestnut on all but the tip of the last 

 secondary ; lores, a narrow eyebrow, feathers round the eye, and 

 ear-coverts pure white; cheeks black, forming a very broad mous- 

 tache ; throat white ; the rest of the under surface fulvous, with 

 indistinct white shaft-streaks, the sides of the body vinaceous, as 

 also the imder wing-coverts; abdomen, thighs, and imder tail- 

 coverts white. Total length 14 inches, culmen 1-15, wing G-9. tail 

 6-2, tarsus 1-7. 



Hab. Algeria, 



