494 GARRULUS GLANDARIUS. G. KRYNICKII. 



[^ 2649. Five.—Loxind, Norfolk, 1875. Prom Mr. Norgate, 



1878.] 



[§ 2650. Fourr 



r. cn^. m . Hawkenden, Suffolk, 14 May, 1891. "E. N. 

 [^ 2051. Two. > _^^^ , . , „ 



[§ 2652. One. ^ 



saw bird." 



My brother wrote : — " In the afternoon we walked to Christner's Wood, an 

 oak-wood of perhaps sixty years' growth, with hazel underwood, and covering 

 about ten or twelve acres. The gamekeeper shewed us three Jays' nests. 

 They were all built against the stem of the oak-trees which had been trimmed 

 some three or four years ago, and small branches had sprouted out to the 

 length of a couple of feet. At the top of these, at about ten or fifteen feet 

 from the ground, were all the nests placed. Two of the trees were covered 

 with straggling ivy, but the nests were very visible. The old bird was on the 

 first nest, and allowed the man almost to touch her before she flew ofi". There 

 were four eggs in this nest. The next nest contained five eggs, but the man 

 poked it down with a pole, and three of them were broken ; they had been 

 incubated a couple of days or so. The third nest also contained five eggs, but 

 four were broken in pulling it down, and so I have only one : it was incubated. 

 The bird we did not see. On the 15th we went down a brook, one of the 

 aflBuents of the Stour (which runs past here), about a mile and then turned up 

 another affluent which runs from Stourfield. Here is some roughish ground 

 on either side, long grass and low, thick, white and black thorn-bushes. Plere 

 we found a Jay's nest in a whitethorn bush, within reach of the ground. The 

 bird sat very close, and my friend nearly caught h.er. It contained five eggs, 

 and we left her.] 



GARRULUS KRYNICKII, Kaleniczenko. 



[§ 2653. 0/^^.— Smyrna, 16 May, 1863. From Dr. Kriiper, 

 through Herr Seidensacher, 1865. 



This specimen is larger than the average of English Jays', and a good deal 

 larger than those sent to me by Mr. Robson (§ 2654). Dr. Kriiper's notes on the 

 habits and nidification of this species, under the name of Corvus melanocephalus, 

 are published in the ' Journal fiir Ornithologie ' for 1869 (page 33).] 



[^2654. i^/ye.— Turkey. From Mr. Robson, of Ortakeuy, 1867. 



In 'The Ibis' for 1870 (page 191) Messrs. Elwes and Buckley state of this 



