or 
CORVIDA. 
Colours of soft parts. Bill black, legs and feet duller black ; iris 
brown to red-brown. 
Measurements. Length about 475mm.; tail 250 to 300 mm.; 
wing about 140 to 155 mm.; tarsus about 30mm. and culmen 
about 25mm. 
Distribution. Southern India from South Travancore to the 
Wynaad. McMaster records a specimen from Chikalda in the 
Gawilgarh Hills, apparently a strageler only. It keeps principally 
to the: western coast. 
Nidification. Nest and eggs of this bird were taken by Bour- 
dillon in March and by Mr. J. Stewart from February to May and 
again in August, and the latter gentleman informs me that they 
breed twice in the year. The nest is similar to that of the preceding 
bird and is placed in small trees and high bushes but it is always 
built in heavy forest and never near villages. Three eges only 
are most often laid but four is not uncommon and sometimes two 
only are incubated. In general appearance they cannot be 
separated from those of himalayensis, described below. 
Fifty eggs average 28-2 x 20°5 mm. 
Habits. Found from the foot of the hills up to about 5,000 feet, 
generally below 3,000 feet. The flight, voice and general babe 
are like those of the Common Indian Tree- pie but this bird is 
essentially an inhabitant of heavy forest and shuns the immediate 
vicinity of mankind. 
Dendrocitta sinensis. 
Key to Subspecies. 
A. Central tail-feathers pale grey, with no 
blacle ip: biG: aiceothe cheater eeeice D, s. sinensis. 
B. Central tail-feathers darker grey, with a 
black tip. 
a. Paler and brighter in colour; vent 
and centre of abdomen almost w hite. D.s. himalayensis, p. 52. 
}, Darker and duller in colour; vent 
and centre of abdomen ashy ...... D.s, assimilis, p. 53. 
(32) Dendrocitta sinensis himalayensis. 
Tur Himanayan TREE-FIE. 
Dendrocitta himalayensis Blyth, Cat., p. 92 (1865) (Himalayas) ; 
Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 82. 
Vernacular names. Mokia-Kak (at Mussoorie); Karrio -pho 
(Lepeha); Aarriah-ban (Bhutea); Kok-long-ah (Assam) ; Dao-ka- 
line (Cachari); Inrui-ko-kink (Naga). 
Description. Forehead, lores and feathers above the eye black ; 
sides of the head, chin and throat dark sooty-brown, fading and 
spreading over the sides of the neck and breast : crown of the 
head, nape and upper back ashy; back and scapulars clear brown- 
ish buff; rump and upper tail-coverts ashy ; wings and their coverts 
