62 CORVID#. 
Distribution. The hills of Burma from the Kachin Hills in the 
north-east, through the Shan States, Karen Hills to:Tenasserim. 
Nidification. This bird breeds in great numbers all round about 
Maymyo, and its nests and eggs have been taken by many collec- 
tors. The nests are wide, untidy cups of twigs, grass and roots, 
and the eggs are like those of G. lanceolatus but very much 
larger, averaging about 33-0 x 23-0inm. It appears to nest in com- 
munities. The breeding season commences in the end of March 
and lasts up to the end of May. Three to five eggs are laid, 
generally four. 
Fig. 15.—Head of G. /. leucotis. 
Habits. Found principally between 4,000 and 7,000 feet, and 
keeping much to pine and drv deciduous rather than to evergreen 
forest; there is little otherwise in the habits of this Jay which 
calls for remark. Harington found it very common in the oak 
forests near Maymyo, and obtained six or seven nests close to 
one another in quite small patches of forest. 
(41) Garrulus leucotis oatesi. 
SHARPE'S JAY. 
Garrulus oatesi Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C., v, p. 44, 1896 (Chin Hills). 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Like the Burmese Jay but has the anterior crown 
and crest white, broadly streaked with black instead of wholly 
black. 
Colours of soft parts and Measurements as in G. J. lewcotis. 
Distribution. Upper and lower Chin Hills right up to the 
borders of Manipur and Looshai and probably inside these 
countries also, though the Chindwin and Irrawaddy rivers may 
prove to be its west and eastern boundaries. 
