50 CORVIDA. 
In the Jays the bill is strong, about three-quarters the length 
of the head and the commissure is straight. The nasal bristles 
are short and numerous, completely covering the nostrils. The 
tailis of medium length and slightly graduated. 
G, lanceolatus has been separated generically under the name 
Laletris on account of its crested crown and more stiffened 
feathers of the throat. These characters are, however, only 
questions of degree and I see no reason to accept them as generic 
in the Jays when we discard far greater differences as of no value 
specifically in other birds. 
Key to Species. 
A: Tail blue barred with black sJaeseeees +e: G. lanceolatus, p. 60, 
B. Tail all black. 
a. Forehead white, crown black or black and 
WHILE 2... 0 2 acnaine ae Seen eee G. leucotis, p. 61. 
. Forehead and crown vinaceous like the back G. bispecularis, p. 62. 
(39) Garrulus lanceolatus. 
THE BILACK-PHROATED JAY. 
Garrulus lanceolatus Vigors, P. Z.8., 1830, p. 7 (Himalayas) ; 
Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 88. 
Vernacular names. Ban-sarrah (of the Simla hillmen). 
Description. Forehead, crown, nape, crest and sides of the head 
black ; remainder of upper jena vinous grey, brighter on the 
rump and upper tail-coverts ; tail blue, barred with black, tipped 
with white and with a broad subterminal band of black ; primaries 
and secondaries black, barred with blue on the outer web; the 
primaries narrowly, the outer secondaries broadly tipped white ; 
the inner secondaries grey, with a subterminal black band and a 
white tip; lesser coverts vinous, the median and greater black ; 
primary coverts almost entirely white ; ; winglet barred with blue 
and tipped with white. 
Chin, throat and foreneck black with white shaft-streaks, the 
black terminating in a patch of iron grey on the upper breast ; 
remainder of the lower plumage and sides of the neck vinous 
grey, brighter than the back. 
Colours of soft parts. Legs and feet livid flesh or slaty pink ; 
claws more horny; bill slaty pink at base, yellowish at tip; iris 
red-brown, red or deep red-lake. The colour ot the iris probably 
changes with age. 
Measurements. Length about 225 to 235 mm.; wing 150 to 
155 mm. ; tail about 160 to 175 mm.; tarsus 32 to 34 mm.; 
culmen about 27 mm. 
Distribution. The Himalayas from Chitral aud Hazara to Nepal 
and the whole of Garhwal and Kashmir up to some 8,000 feet. 
