64 CORVID2®. 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. A broad black moustachial band ; lower part of 
rump, upper and lower tail-coverts, vent and thighs white; with 
these exceptions the whole plumage of the head, neck and body is 
a rich vinaceous fawn-colour ; tail black, with some interrupted 
ashy bars near the base of the central pair of feathers: wings as 
in leucotis. 
Colours of soft parts. Bill dusky; margins of eyelids dull 
brick-red ; iris reddish brown; tarsi and toes pale pinkish fleshy ; 
claws livid. (Scwlly.) 
Measurements. Length about 300 mm.; wing 160 to 178 mm. : 
tail about 180 mm.; tarsus about 32 mm.; culmen about 
26 mm. 
Distribution. Western Himalayas from Cashmere to Nepal and 
Garhwal. 
Nidification. Breeds in April, May and June, making a nest of 
twigs and roots, lined either with grass or with finer roots and 
sometimes having a little moss on the exterior. In shape it varies 
from a shallow to a deep cup some 6” to 8” in diameter and 
it is placed in a fork of some small tree, near the top. Chestnuts 
and oaks seem to be specially favoured. It breeds up to 
7,000 feet or higher and sometimes as low as 3,000 feet. 
The eggs number four or five and are like those of lanceolatus 
but more boldly speckled and often more reddish in the ground- 
colour and markings. They measure 27°59 x 21'4 mm. 
Habits. The Himalayan Jay is a resident bird throughout the 
range between 3,000 and 7,000 feet, perhaps moving up and down 
a little in summer and winter. It haunts forest of all kinds, 
both evergreen and deciduous, and in general habits it closely 
resembles the Black-throated Jay. 
(43) Garrulus bispecularis interstinctus. 
: THe SIKKIM JAY. 
Garrulus bispecularis interstinctus Hartert, Nov. Zoologice, xxv, 
p- 430 (1918) (Darjeeling). 
Vernacular names. Lho-Karrio-pho (Lepcha). 
Description. Similar to the Himalayan Jay with the upper 
parts darker and more reddish brown. The throat is concolorous 
with the lower breast and upper abdomen. 
Measurements. Wing 150 to 170 mm. (/fartert). 
Distribution. Sikkim and probably all the hills north of the 
Brahmahputra as far as the Mishmi and Dafla Hills, where 
Dr. J. Falkiner obtained it. 
Nidification and Habits. Nothing recorded. 
